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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Richard Assheton Cross, Viscount Cross of Broughton in Furness

Date:

May 1875

Source of text:

DAR 97: C19–21

Summary:

Sends a copy of the draft vivisection bill [see 9933] and hopes that it may be approved of and supported by the Government.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

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