From Fritz Müller1 31 August 1865
Desterro, Brazil,
31. August 1865.
Verehrter Herr!
Ich hoffe, Sie werden einen Brief richtig empfangen haben, in welchem ich Ihnen für die Uebersendung Ihrer anregenden Schrift über Kletterpflanzen dankte.2 Ich habe seitdem einige Beobachtungen über diesen Gegenstand gemacht, welche wie ich denke, von einigem Interesse für Sie sein werden.
Zu der Liste von Kletterpflanzen, welche in den Hecken und Dickichts bei Desterro wachsen, kann ich die Gattungen Lygodium, Valeriana, Tragia, Caulotretus hinzufügen. Von drei anderen habe ich die Blüthen noch nicht gesehen und weiss nicht, zu welchen Gattungen sie gehören.
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Translation
From Fritz Müller1 31 August 1865
Desterro, Brazil,
31 August 1865
My dear Sir,
I hope you have received in good order a letter from me in which I thanked you for sending me your stimulating work about climbing plants.2 Since then I have made some observations on this subject which I believe will be of some interest to you.
To the list of climbing plants which grow in the hedges and thickets around Desterro I can add the genera Lygodium, Valeriana, Tragia, Caulotretus. Three others I have not yet seen in bloom and do not know to which genera they belong.
Footnotes
Bibliography
‘Climbing plants’: On the movements and habits of climbing plants. By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1867): 1–118.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Summary
Hopes CD has received his letter of 12 August.
Sends some new observations on climbing plants. [The observations are part of "Notes on some of the climbing-plants, near Desterro, in South Brazil", J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4885A
- From
- Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Desterro, Brazil
- Source of text
- Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 73–4.
- Physical description
- inc (German trans)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4885A,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4885A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13
