From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 389
Summary:
Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.