From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Friedrich August (August) Weismann
Date:
1 and 4 May 1875
Source of text:
DAR 148: 344
Summary:
Comments on AW’s work [Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie, vol. 1 (1875)].
On seasonal dimorphism in Lepidoptera in relation to sexual selection.
Discusses evolutionary reversion.
Comments on birds’ avoiding brightly coloured caterpillars. Offers references on subject.
Alpheus Hyatt says Franz Hilgendorf mistaken [about Planorbis multiformis].
Quotes from letter from J. J. Weir on birds’ rejection of brightly-coloured caterpillars.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project