To Fritz Müller 3 April [1868]
Summary
Movement in plants.
Dimorphism.
Would welcome FM’s opinion of Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 3 Apr [1868] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6085 |
From Fritz Müller 3 April 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him copy of Variation.
Describes results of his brother’s [August Müller] experiments on effect of climate on maize.
Like ancestors of horses, young tapir is also striped.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089A |
From Fritz Müller 22 April 1868
Summary
His opinion of Pangenesis.
On relative proportion of sexes in marine animals [sthg missing!?] Crustacea.
Sexual differences.
Music of Cicadae.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A85–6; Möller 1915–21, 2: 140; Darwin Library–CUL (tipped into CD’s copy of F. Müller 1864a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6140 |
To Fritz Müller 3 June 1868
Summary
Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.
Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.
Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.
Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 3 June 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6224 |
From Fritz Müller 17 June 1868
Summary
Again thanks CD for trouble in arranging for translation of Für Darwin.
Sends addition answering critics of his idea of insect metamorphosis [see Möller ed. 1915–21, 1: 259].
Agrees with Charles Lyell’s suggested English title "Facts and arguments in favor of Darwin", although perhaps more accurate to call it "Darwinism tested by Carcinology" or "Carcinology as bearing on the origin of species".
Says any profit should go to CD for his trouble and expense with the translation.
Thanks for seeds of Eschscholtzia.
Gives observations on number of climbing plants, including Dilleniacea, Marantacea, Catasetum.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 141–3; W. S. Dallas trans. 1869, pp. 119–21 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6248A |
To Fritz Müller 17 August 1868
Summary
FM’s additions for English edition [1869] of Für Darwin.
Dimorphic plants.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Aug 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 25) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6320 |
From Fritz Müller 9 September 1868
Summary
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6359 |
From Fritz Müller 31 October 1868
Summary
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 98, 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6439 |
To Fritz Müller 28 November 1868
Summary
Delay in translating Für Darwin.
Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.
FM’s observations on stridulation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 28 Nov 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 26) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6483 |
From Fritz Müller 12 January 1869
Summary
Gives details of some crossing experiments with Eschscholzia.
Describes the grass Streptochaeta, which FM believes to be a primitive grass.
Relates some observations on maize that are well explained by Pangenesis.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B34–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6549 |
To Fritz Müller 14 March 1869
Summary
Translation of Für Darwin has been published [Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)].
Discusses dimorphic plants, commenting on FM’s observations on Oxalis.
Is greatly interested in Eschscholzia, which seems somewhat more self-sterile in Brazil than in England.
Thinks FM’s grass is "most wonderful".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 14 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 27) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6662 |
From Fritz Müller 14 March 1869
Summary
Describes experiments with sterility in Abutilon.
Describes hermaphroditism in a wild Begonia in Brazil.
Has been observing humble bees on Salvia.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 14 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (SP 859) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6662F |
To Fritz Müller 18 March 1869
Summary
On English edition of Für Darwin; CD’s gratitude and admiration.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 18 Mar 1869 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 28) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6668 |
From Fritz Müller 15 June 1869
Summary
FM much gratified by the appearance of Für Darwin translation.
Discusses dimorphism in Rubiaceae.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 June 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 110: B115; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 215/175) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6783 |
To Fritz Müller 18 July [1869]
Summary
Reports reviews of Facts and arguments for Darwin [1869].
Is preparing for a French translation of Orchids.
The case of Abutilon which is sterile with some individuals is remarkable.
Has sent FM’s account of the monstrous Begonia to the Linnean Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 18 July [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 29) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6835 |
To Fritz Müller 8 September [1869]
Summary
Wants observations on a Papilio to see whether ticking noise is confined to one sex.
Experiments on self-sterility.
Will send copy of his orchid paper ["Fertilisation of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Eschscholzia when self-fertilised, produced pods.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 8 Sept [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6881 |
From Fritz Müller 18 October 1869
Summary
Describes experiments to test the fertility of Abutilon, which appears self-sterile,
and briefly mentions dichogamy in Eschscholzia.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 76: B178, Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/12) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6943 |
To Fritz Müller 1 December [1869]
Summary
Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.
Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.
Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.
Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 1 Dec [1869] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 31) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7018 |
From Fritz Müller 18 December 1869
Summary
Discusses dimorphic and trimorphic plants; mentions especially Rubiaceae and a dimorphic monocotyledon.
Notes observations on the monstrous male flowers of Begonia,
and on self-sterile plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Dec 1869 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: B125–6 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7029 |
From Fritz Müller 16 February 1870
Summary
Sends specimens of Passiflora and seeds for T. H. Farrer [letter enclosed with 7188].
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1870 |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7108 |
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