RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Lepidoptera / Under mimickry. CUL-DAR81.98. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 2.2022. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with 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).
Darwin cited this in Descent 1: 413, n27: "See an ingenious article entitled, "Difficulties of the Theory of Natural Selection," in the 'Month,' 1869. The writer strangely supposes that I attribute the variations in colour of the Lepidoptera, by which certain species belonging to distinct families have come to resemble others, to reversion to a common progenitor; but there is no more reason to attribute these variations to reversion than in the case of any ordinary variation."
Mivart, St. G. J. 1869. [Review of Variation]. Difficulties of the theory of natural selection. The Month, 11 (August): 35-53; (September): 274-89.
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One Lepidoptera
Under Mimickry - allude to considerable variation as bearing on first [illeg] of mimickry [insects], which [is a] difficulty which was felt by several persons firstly alluded to the "Month" p. 9
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See this & my other good [illeg] admired in a paper article "Difficulties of the Theory of Natural Selection" Month 1869.
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