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To Raphael Meldola 23 January [1872]
Summary
Discusses the problems of mimicry as related to natural selection; the general variability of colour as a character; and the conditions necessary for natural selection to fix firmly a character.
Encloses a Fritz Müller letter speculating that organisms respond to certain colours because of the prevalence of those colours in their environment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8172 |
To Raphael Meldola 27 January [1872]
Summary
Invites RM to keep some specimens as long as he wishes.
Recalls vaguely the mention of a butterfly species in which the male alone is mimetic.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 27 Jan [1872] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8184 |
To Raphael Meldola 28 March 1872
Summary
Feels it would be worth while but difficult to investigate mimicked and mimicking forms for structural similarities that would indicate a closer alliance in the past.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1872 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8255 |
Addressee
| Meldola, Raphael | (3) |
