RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 1867.06. 'Wallace tells me...terrestrial leaches'. CUL-DAR81.16 Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed and edited by John van Wyhe 11.2011. RN1
NOTE: The document is in the hand of Emma Darwin.
Reproduced with the permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volumes CUL-DAR80-86 contain material for Darwin's book Descent of man (1871).
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Wallace tells me that in the Eastern Islands there are terrestrial leaches longitudinally banded with bright colours: cased like Plenaria.
W. suspects that some lower marine animals are brightly coloured, as they are stinger on principle of caterpillars, but I doubt.
Darwin and Wallace met in London some time after 19 June 1867. See Darwin's Journal and Wallace to Darwin [19 June 1867].
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