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DCP-LETT-5772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
2 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 62)
Summary:

CD seeks information on the variation of ocelli within species of butterflies.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5790

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
16 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 63)
Summary:

Thanks RT for drawings of ocelli, especially for the description of ocelli of S. African Saturniidae. Would like to know of any cases in which the ocelli are confined to the male, to illustrate better the case of the peacock.

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