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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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Darwin Correspondence Project
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