From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: 27–9
Summary:
Thanks CD for his orchid paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56]. Comments briefly on orchids.
Discusses moths in which the wing underside is the most brightly coloured, and relates his observations on sexual selection by a moth, Syntomis.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
