To Raphael Meldola 12 February [1878]

From Mr. C. Darwin, Down, Beckenham.

Many thanks for the copies of your very interesting paper.— I will send some to Fritz Müller.¹

Feb. 12^th.

Apc

Postmark: FE 13 78

Meldola sent copies of his paper ‘Entomological notes bearing on evolution’ (Meldola 1878); CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. The paper included extracts from Fritz Müller’s notes in his letter to CD of 14 June 1871 (Correspondence vol. 19); see letter from Raphael Meldola, 2 January [1878] and n. 4.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

0.1 Mr.] altered from ‘Mrs.’

1.1 some] above del ‘a couple’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11353,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11353

Thanks RM for his interesting paper ["Entomological notes bearing on evolution", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 5th ser. 1 (1878): 155].

Record number: DCP-LETT-11353
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Raphael Meldola
Date: 12 Feb [1878]
Sent from: Down
Source of text: Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Physical description: Apc

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 26.