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DCP-LETT-5994

From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A19–20
Summary:

Protective coloration in butterflies.

[Alexander] Wallace’s suggestion that collecting larger larvae of females accounts for error in counting proportion of sexes.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 June [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 186–7); Natural History Museum (Entomology Manuscripts MSS WAL A 1:1 (127-128))
Summary:

On butterfly scales: there are many secondary characters which baffle conjecture.

Was forced to make additions to Origin as short as possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5960

From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B52-3; DAR 86: A16;
Summary:

Replies to CD on proportion of sexes in butterflies, coloration of moths, and courtship. Encloses copies of letters on these subjects between HTS, Henry Doubleday, and John Hellins.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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