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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Miss Holland
Date:
[May 1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

An entomologist who has been staying with CD [T. V. Wollaston] says the pupa she sent would turn into a lackey moth.

Adds that the great destruction of birds in the winter preceding the last is probable cause of survival of caterpillars and resulting numerous cocoons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project