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
CD’s annotated copy of Müller’s book on the fertilisation of flowers by insect agency (H. Müller 1873) is in the Darwin Library–CUL (see Marginalia 1: 610–12). Farrer had published articles on the fertilisation of papilionaceous plants (Farrer 1868 and 1872) and CD had encouraged this work (see, for example, Correspondence vol. 20, letter to T. H. Farrer, 13 October [1872]).
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 Baron Farrer
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19)
- Physical description
- 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8885,” accessed on 21 May 2019, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-8885
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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