From John Hellins 10 May 1869

Co Prison. Exeter

May 10. 69

Dear Sir

I have noted the sexes of the Lepidoptera already bred by me this year, & will continue to do so, & forward you the results as before.¹

Yours faithfully | J. Hellins

For Hellins’s earlier list of the proportions of the sexes in Lepidoptera, see Correspondence vol. 16, letters from John Hellins, 20 April 1868 and 16 December 1868.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-6745,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-6745

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