RECORD: Darwin, C. R. 6.1867. Wallace in remarking on peacock's tail. CUL-DAR84.1.46. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Kees Rookmaaker, corrected and edited by John van Wyhe RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. 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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June 21. 67 Wallace in remarking on Peacock's tail says that in the meadow brown butterflies there are infinite variations from a minute black spot to an eye elegantly shaded. This is a far better illustration than mine of pigeon wing-bars.
See the note in Correspondence Wallace to Darwin 13 January 1868: "The meadow brown butterfly is now Maniola jurtina (family Nymphalidae). In Descent 2: 132–3, [Darwin] reported that Alfred Russel Wallace had shown him a series of meadow brown specimens with gradations in ocelli."
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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