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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 77 [enclosure]
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 316]
Summary:

Mentions Dr Krefft and discusses a caterpillar in Sydney whose cocoon imitated the leaf to which it was attached.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Armand (Armand de Quatrefages) Quatrefages de Bréau
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.409)
Summary:

Thanks correspondent for his kind and generous exertions [to get CD elected to French Academy?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350 Box 1 Wallace MSS)
Summary:

Forwards photograph, sent by [J. L. G.] Krefft, of a chrysalis attached to its food-plant; the chrysalis has adjusted its colour remarkably.

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Darwin Correspondence Project