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To Raphael Meldola   25 May 1878

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

May 25. 1878

My dear Sir,

The living beettles & the cooccoons were found in a small paper packet containing the seeds.1 Those from which the beetles had emerged were much broken & the larvæ had evidently attacked some of the other seeds. I am sorry to say that some of the injured ones were thrown away. I am glad that you are going to draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letters2

Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
Fritz Müller had sent CD some seeds that turned out to contain beetles. CD had sent the beetles to Meldola; Meldola had asked to see the seeds as well. See letter from Raphael Meldola, 23 May 1878 and n. 3.
2
See letter from Raphael Meldola, 23 May 1878 and n. 4. Müller had sent CD some notes on Brazilian entomology with his letter of 5 April 1878. CD forwarded the letter and notes to Meldola with his letter of 15 May [1878].

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-11529,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-11529