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From A. G. Butler   19 February 1879

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Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.

Author:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Feb 1879
Classmark:  DAR 160: 389
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11888

From A. G. Butler   31 March 1879

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Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.

Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.

Author:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1879
Classmark:  DAR 160: 390
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11963

From A. G. Butler   13 December 1879

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Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.

Author:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 Dec 1879
Classmark:  DAR 160: 391
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12355
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