To T. H. Farrer 28 April 1873
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
Ap 28. 1873
My dear Farrer
If you should ever again take to insects & flowers, as I heartily hope you will, I advise you to get
Dr Hermann Müllers Befruchtung der Blumen durch insekten
Leipzig Engelmann 18731
For as far as I have read it seems to me to be an excellent book—
yours very faithfully | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Farrer, Thomas Henry. 1868. On the manner of fertilization of the scarlet runner and blue lobelia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 2: 255–63.
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen Anpassungen beider. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntniss des ursächlichen Zusammenhanges in der organischen Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Summary
Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8885
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19)
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8885,” accessed on
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
