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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 160: 387
Summary:

Supplies names of moths and references.

Describes his breeding experiments with butterflies to test effects of reduced light.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 96–7
Summary:

On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;

instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
23 Aug 1875
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (28/3)
Summary:

Sends a moth from Queensland, Australia. The sender says a large number have been caught with proboscises embedded in oranges. CD interested as having a bearing on his Orchis work. Can AGB name the family and any closely allied English genus? The proboscis seems an extraordinary structure [see F. Darwin, "On the structure of the proboscis of Ophideres fullonica", Q. J. Microsc. Sci. n.s. 15 (1875): 384–9].

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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug 1875
Source of text:
DAR 99: 90–1
Summary:

"The moth is rightly named Ophideres Fullonica." Gives its range, family, allied European and British species, etc.

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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 388
Summary:

Can CD explain why house sparrows persist in trying to build a nest in a spot from which it is daily removed?

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
9 May 1877
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 67)
Summary:

"I have always been inclined to think that sparrows were acute & crafty birds, but you certainly show that they are Fools, & if they go on behaving in so idiotic a manner, you will do quite right to expose their conduct in some public Journal!--"

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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 389
Summary:

Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
20 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71)
Summary:

"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.

I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."

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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 390
Summary:

Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.

Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.

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From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 391
Summary:

Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.

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