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DCP-LETT-1806

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Feb 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 299
Summary:

Sends Madeira specimens, including frogs recently introduced into the island, and flourishing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1912

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 137
Summary:

Madeiran insects. Regards the "Atlantic province" as a centre of the Coleoptera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1912A

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 27 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 300
Summary:

On the relationship of the loss of the powers of flight [in Coleoptera] to increase of bulk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2030

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[early Nov 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 138
Summary:

Variability of certain features within insect genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2013

From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 or 18] Dec 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 301
Summary:

Informs CD that the "dishonest mollusks" were collected in May 1855 in Porto Santo. Describes some Madeira species. Though believing in "species" more and more, these may be "mere insular modifications".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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