From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 139
Summary:
Sends subscription form for English edition of Weismann’s Studien.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Nov 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 140
Summary:
Wants information on Fritz Müller’s papers bearing on Weismann’s work.
Contributor:
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 141
Summary:
Wishes to borrow Weismann’s pamphlet on the Daphnidae [ "Ueber die Schmuckfarben der Daphnoiden", Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie 30 (Supp.)]. Is preparing an essay on "alternation of generations".
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Jan 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 142
Summary:
Encloses proof of CD’s prefatory notice for RM’s translation of Weismann; hopes CD might enlarge upon it.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 143
Summary:
Declines CD’s generous offer of assistance with publishing costs of Weismann’s Studies, but would welcome his help in getting elected to the Royal Society.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1882
Source of text:
DAR 171: 144
Summary:
Thanks for agreeing to propose him for the Royal Society.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 116
Summary:
Discusses the origin and advantages of sexual differentiation in terms of division of labour.
Discusses the origin of the giraffe’s neck and the unsoundness of St G. J. Mivart’s view with respect to it.
Points out an error in Descent.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 117
Summary:
Discusses his paper on mimicry and natural selection [Land and Water 9 (1871): 321]. Believes natural selection tends to fix mimetic characters rigidly.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Jan 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 118
Summary:
Discusses the roles of natural and sexual selection in producing mimicry, and the problem of explaining the cause of the first mimetic variation; considers the ideas of A. R. Wallace and Fritz Müller on this problem.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 119
Summary:
Wishes to use some of Fritz Müller’s observations in his paper on mimicry.
CD’s reply and Huxley’s article ["Mr Darwin’s critics", Contemp. Rev. 18 (1871): 443–76] have answered all of Mivart’s objections to natural selection as applied to man.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 89: 89–90b
Summary:
A. G. Butler has named the specimens sent by CD with Fritz Müller’s letter.
Sends several facts relating to sexual selection, mimicry, and hybrids.
Discusses the possibility that mimicked and mimicking forms have descended from originally allied forms and have diverged in structure but not in appearance.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 83–4
Summary:
Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.
Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.
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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 120
Summary:
Encloses a copy of his paper on mimicry [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 153–61].
Asks whether large variations are more often limited to one sex than slight ones.
Contributor:
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