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Letter from Edward Bagnall Poulton, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'An enquiry into the cause and extent of a special colour-relation between certain exposed lepidopterous pupae and the surfaces immediately surround them' by Edward Bagnall Poulton

Reference number: RR/10/74

Date: 31 March 1887

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Is happy to carry out the recommendations of the referees. Will come to the Royal Society meeting to discuss the woodcuts. Hopes to have the paper ready before he leaves in three weeks.

Subject: Zoology

[Published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1887]

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RR/10/74
Earliest possible date
31 March 1887
Physical description
Letter on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter from Edward Bagnall Poulton, to John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, regarding a paper 'An enquiry into the cause and extent of a special colour-relation between certain exposed lepidopterous pupae and the surfaces immediately surround them' by Edward Bagnall Poulton, 31 March 1887, RR/10/74, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/rr_10_74/letter-from-edward-bagnall-poulton-to-john-william-strutt-3rd-baron-rayleigh-regarding-a-paper-an-enquiry-into-the-cause-and-extent-of-a-special-colour-relation-between-certain-exposed-lepidopterous-pupae-and-the-surfaces-immediately-surround-them-by-edward-bagnall-poulton, accessed on 19 September 2024

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