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From Hermann Müller   25 January 1877

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Thanks CD for calling attention to a "considerable error" in his observations on Hottonia fertility [in Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. [See Forms of flowers, p. 52.]

Author:  Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 Jan 1877
Classmark:  DAR 110: A26–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10815

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  • Orchids 2d ed. , pp. vii–x. In Forms of flowers , pp. 263–8, CD discussed Müller’s suggestion ( H. Müller 1873 , p. 352) that homostyled plants might have been rendered heterostyled from the effects of habit (Müller observed flies

From Roland Trimen   2 September 1877

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Thanks for Forms of flowers.

Author:  Roland Trimen
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  2 Sept 1877
Classmark:  DAR 178: 192
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11124

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  • orchids were capable of, I have always had my misgivings as to “pulling” flowers for mere bouquets or decoration. It is terrible to think of the infinite maiming and maltreatment plants everywhere undergo, even from those “sweet-hearted” ones “whose light-blue eyes Are tender over drowning flies. ” …
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