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
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Asks whether RT will call.
On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.
Arranges for RT to call.
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
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.]
Approves CD’s revision on coloration of moths.
Impressed with apparent adverse tendencies: one toward sexual selection, the other toward protection.