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To Raphael Meldola   27 January [1872]1

Pray keep the specimens as long as you wish.— I have read your letter with interest & pleasure.—2 I have vague recollection of Mr Trimen in Transact. Linn. Soc. or of Mr Butler of Brit. Mus. mentioning the case of ♂ alone mimicking some other Butterfly.3

C. Darwin

Down. Jan. 27th

ApcS

1
The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Raphael Meldola, 25 January 1872.
3
CD refers to Roland Trimen, the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Arthur Gardiner Butler, and the British Museum. CD was probably recalling a letter by Butler in Nature, 29 December 1870, p. 165 (see also Correspondence vol. 19, letter from A. G. Butler, 2 June 1871 and nn. 5–8, 13).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-8184,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-8184