Meldola

He has received the Meldola medal of the Royal Institute of

Ronald G.W. Norrish - Biography 1968

There was no real divergence between Wallace and Prof. Meldola on this matter when they subsequently discussed it.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

The following letter to Meldola refers to a suggestion that the white colour of the undersides of animals might have been developed by selection through the physical advantage gained from the protection of the vital parts by a lighter colour and therefore by a surface of less radiative activity.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

In the summer of 1885 he spent a holiday with Prof. Meldola at Lyme Regis.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

The following letter refers to the theory of physiological selection which had recently been propounded by Romanes, and which Prof. Meldola had criticised in Nature, xxxix.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

Prof. Meldola endeavoured to show that the difficulties raised by Spencer and supported by Romanes had no real weight because the possibility of so-called “co-adaptations” being developed successively in the order of evolution had not been reckoned with.

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

Soon after Wallace's death a Committee was formed (with Prof. Poulton as Chairman and Prof. Meldola as Treasurer) to erect a memorial, and the following petition was sent to the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey:

Alfred Russel Wallace Letters and Reminiscences Marchant, James 1916

In 1518 it was enfeoffed to the Pio di Meldola, passing later to the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

Born at Meldola in Romagna in 1819, he was of the true Romagnol type in mind and body; daring, resourceful, intolerant of control.

The Liberation of Italy Countess Evelyn Martinengo-Cesaresco 1891

Meldola, Professor R., on variable protective colouring, 196 on mimicry among British moths, 249 (note) on an extension of the theory of mimicry, 255 (note)

Darwinism (1889) Alfred Russel Wallace 1868