To Raphael Meldola 14 September 1877
Summary
Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11140 |
To Raphael Meldola 22 September [1877]
Summary
Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.
Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]
and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 22 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11148 |
To Raphael Meldola 27 September [1877]
Summary
Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.
Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 27 Sept [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11154 |
To Raphael Meldola 19 October [1877]
Summary
Interesting article by Fritz Müller on sexual selection in butterflies, Kosmos [1 (1877): 388–95].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 19 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11189 |
To Raphael Meldola 22 October [1877]
Summary
Thinks Weismann would welcome a translation.
Was dissatisfied with Wallace’s article.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 22 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11197 |
To Raphael Meldola 31 October [1877]
Summary
Hopes RM finds a publisher [for his translation of Weismann’s Studien].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 31 Oct [1877] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11217 |
From Raphael Meldola 13 September 1877
Summary
Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 122 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11135 |
From Raphael Meldola 21 September 1877
Summary
Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.
Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Sept 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 123 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11147 |
From Raphael Meldola 20 October 1877
Summary
Would like to see the Kosmos article.
Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.
Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Oct 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11192 |
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