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DCP-LETT-8170

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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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8180

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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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