To Raphael Meldola 25 November [1878]
Summary
CD sends his preface [to RM’s translation of August Weismann, Studies in the theory of descent (1882); Collected papers 2: 280–1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 25 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Institution of Engineering and Technology Archives (SC MSS 003/B/1/048) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11757 |
To Raphael Meldola 26 November [1878]
Summary
Regrets he cannot compare his work with Weismann’s in his preface as he feels “an author is never a fit judge of his own work”. [Appended note explains that RM wished CD’s work to be fully acknowledged, which was frequently not the case in continental writings.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 26 Nov [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11759 |
To Raphael Meldola 14 December [1878]
Summary
Is glad book progresses; answers translation query.
Francis Darwin does not have time to lecture.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 14 Dec [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11793 |
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 |
To Raphael Meldola 25 November 1880
Summary
References to Fritz Müller’s papers relevant to Weismann’s Studien [in Kosmos (Aug, Sept, and Oct 1877)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 25 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12854 |
To Raphael Meldola 12 March 1881
Summary
Will proof-read his preface to Weismann’s Studien.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 12 Mar 1881 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13093 |
To Raphael Meldola 8 August 1881
Summary
Requests name of the publishers of RM’s translation of Weismann’s Studien.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 8 Aug 1881 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13280 |
To Raphael Meldola 10 August [1881]
Summary
Apologises for the trouble he has caused RM. Encloses letter [13280] which has been returned to CD [by August Dupré, to whom CD had sent it in error].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 10 Aug [1881] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13284 |
To Raphael Meldola 2 February 1882
Summary
Regrets he can add no more to his preface for Weismann’s Studies. Offers donation to aid with publishing expenses.
Thinks RM’s preface is excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 2 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Essex Naturalists Field Club, Meldola papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13654 |
To Raphael Meldola 5 February 1882
Summary
Agrees to propose RM for the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 5 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13662 |
To Raphael Meldola 23 February 1882
Summary
RM’s application to the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 23 Feb 1882 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13702 |
To Raphael Meldola 28 January [1871]
Summary
Thanks RM for information on case of hexadactyly [see RM’s paper, "Hexadactylism", Land and Water, 11 March 1871, p. 179.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 28 Jan [1871] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7462 |
To Raphael Meldola 9 June [1871]
Summary
Mentions the difficulties in explaining the separation of sexes and Carl Nägeli’s view that the sexes of plants were primordially distinct.
Has been experimenting for five or six years to demonstrate that the benefits of crossing are the same as those derived from a slight change of conditions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 9 June [1871] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7813 |
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 |
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