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DCP-LETT-11135

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 122
Summary:

Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
14 Sept 1877
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11147

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 123
Summary:

Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.

Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
22 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thinks the facts in Fritz Müller’s letter could be published.

Recommends August Weismann’s essay on dimorphism ["Über den Saison-Dimorphismus der Schmetterlinge", Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie 1 (1875)]

and has no doubt that intermediate forms could be eliminated as RM suggests.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
27 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Does not think Fritz Müller can object to anything RM has said in his essay.

Has alluded to colour preference among butterflies in Descent [1: 400–1].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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