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DCP-LETT-7880

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
24 May [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 69)
Summary:

Cannot explain why moths fly into candle flames and birds against lighthouses. Has felt it was just curiosity which attracted them.

CD does believe dogs have some sense of humour.

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DCP-LETT-7884

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 July 1871
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 70)
Summary:

Invites RT to call on him while he is staying at Haredene.

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DCP-LETT-8064

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
13 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 72)
Summary:

Regrets he is too unwell to see RT before his departure for the Cape; wishes him well.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10133

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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