Meldola’s letter has not been found, but he had evidently asked for permission to read portions of Fritz Müller’s letter to CD of [27 November 1877] (Correspondence vol. 25) to the Entomological Society of London on 6 February 1878 (Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (Proceedings) (1878): ii–iii; see also letter to Fritz Müller, 12 January 1878).