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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:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Raphael Meldola

Date:

13 Aug [1873]

Source of text:

Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)

Summary:

Thanks RM for his paper on mimicry.

Cannot answer RM’s query because he believes it impossible to define large variations.

Believes monstrosities are generally injurious and are not often, if ever, taken advantage of in nature.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project