From Raphael Meldola   22 March 1878

21 John St. | Bedford Row, | London W.C.

March 22nd. 1878

My dear Sir,

I enclose proof of Proc. Ent. Soc. for Feb. meeting in order that you may see the use I have made of the letter from Fritz Müller which you were so good as to place at my disposal.1 The discussion on Sir John Lubbock’s paper also elicited, as you will see, many valuable observations— altogether the meeting was occupied with the consideration of so many points bearing on the great question of the descent-theory that you may find it useful to keep the enclosed separate copy of the Proc. for reference.2 This must be my excuse for troubling you.

Yours very truly, | R. Meldola.

P.S. I am forming an album of the eminent scientific men of the period— dare I ask you to honour me with your photograph & autograph to add to the collection? If you have one to spare (ordinary ‘carte’ size) I should highly prize it. | R. M.

1
See Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Fritz Müller, [27 November 1877]. Meldola had asked for CD’s permission to read extracts from the letter to the Entomological Society of London (see letter from Raphael Meldola, 2 January [1878]); the extracts were read at the 6 February meeting and published in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London (1878): ii–iii.
2
The discussion of Lubbock’s paper ‘On the colouring of British caterpillars’ (J. Lubbock 1878) was published in Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London (1878): iv–vii. A copy of the 6 February Proceedings (1878: i–vii) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

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