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DCP-LETT-8821

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Mar 1873
Source of text:
DAR 89: 83–4
Summary:

Gives some information on variation of ocelli between sexes in butterfly species.

Proposes publishing a series of papers on mimicry.

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DCP-LETT-8823

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
26 Mar [1873]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350, Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thanks RM for note on ocelli.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9004

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 120
Summary:

Encloses a copy of his paper on mimicry [Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1873): 153–61].

Asks whether large variations are more often limited to one sex than slight ones.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9006

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
13 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Thanks RM for his paper on mimicry.

Cannot answer RM’s query because he believes it impossible to define large variations.

Believes monstrosities are generally injurious and are not often, if ever, taken advantage of in nature.

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