To Hermann Müller 29 March [1867]
Summary
Has learned that Fritz Müller is HM’s brother.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 29 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 428 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5471 |
From Hermann Müller 25 September 1878
Summary
Thanks CD for his efforts to get HM’s book, Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873], translated into English. [See Fertilisation of flowers, translated by D’Arcy W. Thompson, preface by C. Darwin (1883).]
Will soon return to his observations on insects in general and bees in particular.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Sept 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 311 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11710 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … See Correspondence vol. 20, letter to Hermann Müller, [before 5 May 1872] ; see also …
- … Correspondence vol. 24, letter from Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 . Müller did not …
- … see Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Hermann Müller, 7 August 1875 , and Correspondence …
- … vol. 24, letter from Hermann Müller, 4 September 1876 . Alpenblumen, ihre Befruchtung …
From Hermann Müller 4 October 1876
Summary
He has never observed the straight line flight routes in male humble-bees that CD reports.
His last letter was in error: alpine Bombus terrestris does break into some flowers.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Oct 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10631 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … see Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Hermann Müller, 23 October 1875 and n. 1). On CD’s …
- … terrestris , the buff-tailed bumble-bee, see the letter from Hermann Müller, 4 September …
- … 1876 ; see also letter from Hermann Müller, 16 February 1876 and n. 2. Silene inflata is …
- … See Correspondence vol. 23, letter from Hermann Müller, 23 October 1875 ; see also ibid. , …
From Hermann Müller 10 June 1873
Summary
Reports on insects fertilising Viola tricolor and on the fertilisation of the two wild forms [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 124 n., 125].
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 77: 154–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8941 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … flowers; H. Müller 1873 ) in his letter to Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 . Müller refers to …
- … has not been found, but see the letter from Hermann Müller, 27 May 1873 and n. 1. Müller …
- … sche Buchhandlung of Stuttgart. See letter from Hermann Müller, 19 May 1873 . Müller was …
- … an aquatic perennial grass (see letter from Hermann Müller, 27 May 1873 and n. 1). Poa …
- … On Viola tricolor , see the letter from Hermann Müller, 19 May 1873 , and H. Müller …
To Arnold Dodel-Port 12 February 1879
Summary
Thanks AD-P for the gift of part of his Atlas [see 11039].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Arnold Dodel-Port |
Date: | 12 Feb 1879 |
Classmark: | Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (Ms. Z VIII 417.2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11877 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … s problems related to his teaching; see letter to Hermann Müller, 12 February [ …
- … 1879] , and letter from Hermann Müller, 14 February 1879 . …
- … letter from Dodel-Port has not been found. He sent the second part of his and Carolina Dodel-Port’s botanical atlas ( Dodel-Port and Dodel-Port 1878–83 ). He had sent the first part in 1878; see Correspondence vol. 26, letter from Arnold Dodel-Port, 12 June 1878 . Dodel-Port taught botany at the University of Zurich. In his now missing letter, Dodel-Port had evidently written about Hermann Müller’ …
To Fritz Müller 15 August [1867]
Summary
Queries about expressions in crying monkeys.
Has received letter from Hermann Müller on orchid fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 15 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 18) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5605 |
From Hermann Müller 5 May 1872
Summary
Thanks CD for MS on the routes of male bees.
His "Fertilisation of flowers" is complete [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 May 1872 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 298 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8313 |
To Fritz Müller 24 July 1878
Summary
Thanks for seeds
and information about earthworms.
Is working hard at movement in plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 24 July 1878 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 47) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11626 |
From Hermann Müller 19 May 1873
Summary
Praises Expression.
Reports on Fritz Müller’s observations of cross- and self-fertilisation. HM will cultivate the two forms [i.e., mainly self-fertilised and mainly cross-fertilised] in the way CD has described.
He continues his observation of wild flowers. Encloses drawing of Viola tricolor with notes on its self-fertility.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B181–2, DAR 77: 139 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8907 |
From Hermann Müller 12 May 1873
Summary
Thanks for CD’s praise of his book [see 8901].
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 300 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8909 |
From Hermann Müller 10 March 1868
Summary
Has heard from W. Engelmann of Leipzig; he is willing to let CD have the woodcuts to Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin (1864)] for 22 thalers.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Mar 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 293 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6001 |
To Fritz Müller 16 March [1868]
Summary
CD arranging for a translation of FM’s Für Darwin by W. S. Dallas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 16 Mar [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 22) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6014 |
To Fritz Müller 25 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for facts on orchids.
Friedrich Hildebrand’s new book on fertilisation of plants [Die Geschlechten-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
CD correcting proofs of Variation.
FM likes Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5458 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … to CD, see the letter from Hermann Müller, 23 March 1867 , n. 1. CD had begun correcting …
- … copy is extant. In a letter to his brother, Hermann Müller , of 11 February 1867, Müller …
- … vol. 14, letter from Fritz Müller, 2 August 1866 ). For the papers sent by Hermann Müller …
- … part of his letter of 2 February 1867 . In his letter to Hermann Müller of 11 February …
- … part of his letter of 2 February 1867 . In his letter to Hermann Müller of 11 February …
From Hermann Müller 25 August 1873
Summary
Fritz Müller is now working on the Brazilian honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona).
HM thanks CD for fertilisation references.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Aug 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9028 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Smith for identification ( letter from Fritz Müller to Hermann Müller, 15 December 1872 ( …
- … Melipona and Trigona ( letter from Fritz Müller to Hermann Müller, 29 January 1873 (Möller …
- … letter of 12 May 1873 , Müller had asked CD to keep him informed about English publications on the subject of fertilisation. CD also sent a copy of Alfred William Bennett’s review of Müller’s book on the fertilisation of flowers by means of insects ( A. W. Bennett 1873b ; H. Müller 1873 ). Fritz Müller began his work on bees while he was reading proofs of H. Müller 1873 ; initially he tried to find the bee species mentioned by Hermann …
From Hermann Müller 14 August 1880
Summary
HM’s son will visit CD when he comes to London.
Is glad CD approves of his judgment of G. Bonnier’s paper on nectaries [Gaston Bonnier, "Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 8 (1879): 5–212].
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Aug 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 315 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12687 |
To Hermann Müller 9 October 1868
Summary
Pleased HM says good words for Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 431 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6415 |
From Hermann Müller [after 23 February 1868]
Summary
HM is certain his brother Fritz would like to see Für Darwin translated into English by Dallas. He will make arrangements with the German publisher.
Two friends are writing Darwinian works: Adolf Speyer on phylogeny of Lepidoptera
and August Röse on genealogy of mosses.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 23 Feb 1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 292 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5920 |
From Fritz Müller 21 July 1878
Summary
Is sending CD the seeds of a beautiful Cassia given to him by a friend. He sketched the unripe fruit a few months ago. This plant is rare in the area around Sta Catharina. He has found their largest and most beautiful butterfly Callidryas manippe near this tree and its caterpillars living on its leaves. Comments on how remarkable it is to find a species limited to living on a single tree in so large an area.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 July 1878 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 382 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11623A |
From Hermann Müller 8 March 1870
Summary
HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 296 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7130 |
To Hermann Müller 30 May 1873
Summary
Further comments on HM’s [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 30 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 435; Krause 1884, p. 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8929 |
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