From Hermann Müller 12 May 1873
Lippstadt
12 May | 1873.
My dear Sir,
I thank you very sincerely for your kind letter.1
The summers which I have spent in the observation of the insects visiting our flowers and of the structure of either were of my most gratifying ones by the rich harvest of my excursions. This alone would be a sufficient compensation for all the pains I have bestowed on my book.2 To believe that this book has interested in some way those naturalists, for whom I feel the greatest respect, is the highest reward possible to me. The opinion of my book expressed by my brother Fritz, by Delpino, Hildebrand, Sachs and particularly by you encourages me to continue my investigations,3 and you would very much oblige me by acquainting me also in future with English essays recently published on my subject.
The enclosed fragment of Ranunculus Ficaria may perhaps be of some interest to you, as it shows the incorrectness of the opinion of Mr. Chatin (quoted in your “Variation of animals and plants under domestication” Chap. 18) that bulbifering specimens of this plant never produce fruit4
Believe me, my dear Sir, | yours very sincerely | H Müller.
Footnotes
Bibliography
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.
Variation: The variation of animals and plants under domestication. By Charles Darwin. 2 vols. London: John Murray. 1868.
Summary
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [see 8901].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8909
- From
- Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Lippstadt
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 300
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8909,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8909.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 21