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From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 122
Summary:

Has reread copy of Fritz Müller’s letter that CD sent some time ago and would like to publish the entomological observations in it.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 123
Summary:

Encloses Fritz Müller’s letter.

Is exhibiting butterflies in which variations in the female show a finely graded series. Believes dimorphism can be explained by the selection of the extremes of such a series and the consequent extinction of the intermediates.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 124
Summary:

Would like to see the Kosmos article.

Is considering producing a translation of August Weismann’s essays.

Comments on Wallace’s paper on the colours of animals and plants [Macmillan’s Magazine 36 (1877): 384–408, 464–71].

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