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FOR the last ten or eleven years Mr. Frederic Merrifield, of Brighton, has been conducting a most elaborate and extensive series of experiments in the rearing of lepidopterous insects under various conditions of temperature. The results obtained by him are of high interest, both in themselves and also in reference to similar experiments independently undertaken by Dorfmeister, Weismann, Standfuss and others, some of which have already been noticed in the pages of NATURE. It is proposed to give here a short general account of the chief of Mr. Merrifield's experiments, with figures of some of the main results obtained. For full details the reader is referred to the original accounts which have appeared from time to time in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London.
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DIXEY, F. Mr. Merrifield's Experiments on the Relation of Temperature to Variation. Nature 57, 184–188 (1897). https://doi.org/10.1038/057184a0
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