From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[16 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 66)
Summary:
Asks whether RT will call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 86: A92–3
Summary:
On attraction of males by females in moths. H. T. Stainton mentions a case.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[21 Mar 1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 67)
Summary:
Arranges for RT to call.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 81: 76, DAR 85: B61–2, DAR 84.1: 134–5
Summary:
Coloration in moths.
Quotes Achille Guénée on relative proportion of sexes in Phalaenites.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A119–20
Summary:
Thanks RT for letter which saves him from a "terrible mistake": that no moths were more brilliantly coloured beneath than above. Suggests revised version for comment. [See Descent 1: 397.]
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Mar 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A120v
Summary:
Approves CD’s revision on coloration of moths.
Impressed with apparent adverse tendencies: one toward sexual selection, the other toward protection.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 85: B50–1
Summary:
Extract from Émile Blanchard’s Metamorphoses, moeurs et instincts des insectes [1868], on attraction of males by female Lepidoptera, and possible explanation.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
14 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 68)
Summary:
Has tried using dealers’ price-lists as a guide to sex ratios in Lepidoptera; finds numerous cases in which the sexes bring different prices and in virtually all of them the males are cheaper. This seems to confirm the impression of the field collectors.
Wishes RT good luck with natural history in S. Africa.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 82: 27–9
Summary:
Thanks CD for his orchid paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56]. Comments briefly on orchids.
Discusses moths in which the wing underside is the most brightly coloured, and relates his observations on sexual selection by a moth, Syntomis.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 and 18 Apr 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 187
Summary:
Man’s spiritual life separates him from other animals.
Why are moths attracted, often fatally, to lights?
Thanks for copy of Descent.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
24 May [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 69)
Summary:
Cannot explain why moths fly into candle flames and birds against lighthouses. Has felt it was just curiosity which attracted them.
CD does believe dogs have some sense of humour.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 188
Summary:
Hopes to visit during CD’s stay at Haredene.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
27 July 1871
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 70)
Summary:
Invites RT to call on him while he is staying at Haredene.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21] Aug [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 189
Summary:
Intends to visit CD at Haredene.
Contributor:
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From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
[22 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 71)
Summary:
CD is very unwell; will be unable to see RT.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Sept 1871
Source of text:
DAR 178: 190
Summary:
On St G. J. Mivart’s Genesis of species and Chauncey Wright’s review of it [North Am. Rev. (July 1871)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roland Trimen
Date:
13 Nov [1871]
Source of text:
Royal Entomological Society (Trimen papers, box 21: 72)
Summary:
Regrets he is too unwell to see RT before his departure for the Cape; wishes him well.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Apr 1872
Source of text:
DAR 178: 191
Summary:
On new [6th] edition of the Origin; comments on additions.
Owen’s attitude toward evolution.
Contributor:
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 192
Summary:
Thanks for Forms of flowers.
Contributor:
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