From St G. J. Mivart 11 June 1870
Summary
Asks by what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes
and how the beauty of bivalves could have been produced by natural or sexual selection.
| Author: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 188 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7227 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … what action CD believes bee, spider, and fly orchids came to resemble their namesakes and …
- … discussed the appearance of the bee, fly, and spider orchids, and of bivalve shellfish, in …
- … The bee, spider, and fly ophrys are, in CD’s Orchids , Ophrys apifera , O. aranifera , …
- … Orchids , pp. 68–9, CD had written, ‘ Robert Brown imagined that the flowers resembled bees in order to deter insects from visiting them; I cannot think this probable. The equal or greater resemblance of the Fly …
To St G. J. Mivart 13 June [1870]
Summary
In his reply to [7227] CD questions the significance of the supposed likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes.
He thinks that the beauty of shells is altogether incidental and of no use to the animals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | St George Jackson Mivart |
| Date: | 13 June [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 93 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7228A |
Matches: 3 hits
- … likeness of the bee, spider, and fly orchids to their presumed namesakes. He thinks that …
- … fly, and spider ophrys, see the letter from St G. J. Mivart, 11 June 1870 and n. 1. The large butterfly orchis is, in CD’s Orchids , …
- … Fly Ophrys is more like. Hooker believes that the Spider ophrys is so called simply from the curved marks on the Labellum like the marks on the backs of some Epeiræ. The Butterfly orchis has hardly any resemblance to a butterfly, & so with some foreign orchids …
To Hermann Müller 14 March 1870
Summary
Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884, pp. 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7131 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … flies and midges; Hymenoptera are bees, wasps and ants. In his letter to Müller of 16 August [1867] (this volume, Supplement), CD noted that he had only ever seen wasps visiting Epipactis latifolia (a synonym of E. helleborine , broad-leaved helleborine). CD received a specimen of Angraecum sesquipedale (comet orchid) …
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Mivart, S. G. J. | (2) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
