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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[24 June 1867]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 74)
Summary:

CD now acknowledges that the sometimes very great sexual, i.e., ornamental, differences in fishes offer a difficulty to the view that females are not brightly coloured on account of the danger to propagation of the species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:
24 June [1867]
Source of text:
Institut Mittag-Leffler
Summary:

Thanks VOK for the present of A. E. Brehm’s Illustrirtes Thierleben [1864–7].

The woodcuts will do admirably [for Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project