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From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 81: 78, DAR 82: A8
Summary:

Otto Staudinger’s catalogue shows prices of female Lepidoptera to be higher than those of males.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Doubleday
Date:
15 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: 121-2
Summary:

Submits lists of insects [missing] for correspondent to check whether brightly coloured. Wants to determine whether there is any relation between bright colouring, whether in both sexes or one alone, and an unequal number of males and females.

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From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A9–10
Summary:

On proportion of sexes;

coloration of sexes in Lepidoptera.

Sexual attraction of female Saturnia carpini.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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