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