From:
Thomas Vernon Wollaston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 136
Summary:
Hybrid insects.
Description of the Salvages.
Variability of "transition groups" of insects; relation of variability to ranges of insects. The variability of wings, even within species. Reduction of flying ability on isolated islands.
Forbes’s "Atlantis" theory and insect fauna of the Atlantic islands, considered with regard to insect migrations.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
