From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[16 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 66)
Summary:
Asks whether RT will call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A92–3
Summary:
On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[21 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 67)
Summary:
Arranges for RT to call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 81: 76, DAR 85: B61–2, DAR 84.1: 134–5
Summary:
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A119–20
Summary:
Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A120v
Summary:
Approves CD’s revision on coloration of moths.
Impressed with apparent adverse tendencies: one toward sexual selection, the other toward protection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project