skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search Results

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
"Darwin C R" in search-correspondent disabled_by_default
Darwin, C. R. in correspondent disabled_by_default
Meldola, Raphael in correspondent disabled_by_default
1879 in date disabled_by_default
Darwin, C. R. in author disabled_by_default
5 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

To Raphael Meldola   20 January 1879

Summary

Sends the Fritz Müller article from Kosmos.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  20 Jan 1879
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11836

To Raphael Meldola   7 February 1879

Summary

Wishes to subscribe to RM’s translation of Weismann.

Has seen Scudder’s article.

A. R. Wallace’s article ["Animals and their native countries", Nineteenth Century 5 (1879): 247–59] is excellent.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  7 Feb 1879
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11862

To Raphael Meldola   6 June [1879]

Summary

Suggests he write to Ernst Krause about publication of translation of Fritz Müller’s paper. FM’s view of mutual protection is quite new to CD.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  6 June [1879]
Classmark:  Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club, Meldola papers)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12090

To Raphael Meldola   19 [June 1879]

Summary

Shares RM’s misgivings about Fritz Müller’s mutually protecting mimics. Would expect bird’s response to distasteful caterpillars to be instinctive. Believes J. J. Weir or Thomas Belt may have investigated the point.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  19 [June 1879]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12115

To Raphael Meldola   12 December [1879]

Summary

Would like to subscribe to English edition of Weismann.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Raphael Meldola
Date:  12 Dec [1879]
Classmark:  Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12354
Document type
letter (5)
Author
Darwin, C. R.disabled_by_default
Addressee
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R.disabled_by_default
Meldola, Raphaeldisabled_by_default
Date