- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 234-235
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 270]
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On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.
Thanks for the photographs, which are "very good".
Opinions on Descent.
Sexual selection and mimicry in Lepidoptera; sexual selection as an aid to protective imitation.
Comments on TP’s work on mimicry.
Thanks for book he is sending [Wissenschaftliches System der Mimik und Physiognomik (1867)].
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Sends enclosure for ARW to read.
Has read Thomson’s address with "greatest interest", but JDH has said exactly what he [CD] thinks of it.
Herschel’s was a good sneer. It made him add the Raphael Madonna simile in Descent [2: 142].
Asks WWB to send 8 grains of acetate of strychnine by post.
Mentions experiments on Lythrum.
Thanks for list of seeds.
CD’s comments on proofs of JL’s book [Monograph of the Collembola and Thysanura (1873)].
Asks JM whether he will publish 750 copies of a pamphlet [Chauncey Wright’s review of Mivart’s Genesis of species, North Am. Rev. 113 (1871): 63–103] at CD’s expense.
Has been ill so cannot say when he will finish new edition of Origin.
Asks about sales and printing of Descent.
Thanks AA for a ‘splendid case of gradation of structure’.
Sends details of trains for a clerk to travel to Down from London and back.
In response to a query [from "F. W. B."], CD describes his experience with seeding Leschenaultia, which demonstrates that insect agency is required.
Sends an article for insertion in Gardeners’ Chronicle.
Suggests sending a proof ‘as my hand-writing is so bad’.