To William Ogle 5 May [1873]1
Down, | Beckenham, Kent.
May 5th
My dear Dr. Ogle
I think the “Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten by Dr. H. Müller 1873 Leipzig” (1 vol. with 478 pages), would be well worth your getting; for besides many excellent original observations, it seems a perfect index for Germany & Italy of all that has been done.—2
Yours very sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
The year is established by the reference to H. Müller 1873. CD was reading the book in May 1873 (see letter to Hermann Müller, 5 May 1873).
Ogle had published three papers on the fertilisation of plants (see Ogle 1869, 1870a, and 1870b). CD had lent Ogle a paper on this topic; see Correspondence vol. 16, letter from William Ogle, 2 September 1868. H. Müller 1873, pp. 3–27, included a review of all the literature on the subject.
Summary
Recommends H. Müller’s Die Befruchtung den Blumen durch Insekten (1873).
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8901F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- William Ogle
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- James P. Evans (private collection)
- Physical description
- 1p cov
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8901F,” accessed on 23 February 2019, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-8901F
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21
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