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FVM-65-12-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives, DF3/1/ folder 2, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:

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FVM-66-10-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 October 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, General Library, Owen correspndence, vol. XIX, f. 374
Summary:

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FVM-66-12-31b

From:
George Bennett
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
31 December 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Owen Correspondence, vol. 3, letter number 329.A version of this letter was published in Bulletin of the Post-Graduate Committee in Medicine, University of Sydney, vol. 11, no. 9, December 1955, pp. 263-4
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FVM-69-04-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
14 April 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, General Library, Owen Correspondence, Vol. XIX, ff. 376-7
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5903

From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Feb 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A6–7
Summary:

Sends a preliminary reply to CD’s query [5890]. Ten males to one female among captured micro-Lepidoptera. Six females to four or five males in those he has bred. HTS is aware this is diametrically opposed to information from [Alexander] Wallace and Bates, but the true proportion of sexes can only be ascertained by breeding.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

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.

Contributor:
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.

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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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