From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 104–7
Summary:
Several observations on protective coloration and sexual selection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 108–111
Summary:
Facts contradicting Wallace’s views on coloration of Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 81–2
Summary:
Resemblance of ocelli, in a moth and the argus pheasant.
Mimicry.
Pugnacity of stickleback.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68)
Summary:
Thanks AGB for "various notes".
Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 89: 94–5
Summary:
Observations on ocelli of Brahmaea certhia.
Monstrosity born to a woman – half bear, half human.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
