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From A. B. Farn   18 November 1878

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Discusses colour variations in the geometer moth, Gnophos obscurata. Concludes that the increasing proportion of the darker form is related to the effect of smoke that is blackening the chalk slopes on which they live.

Author:  Albert Brydges Farn
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  18 Nov 1878
Classmark:  DAR 164: 26
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11747
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