From Hermann Müller 5 May 1872
Lippstadt
5 May 1872.
My dear Sir
Your kind letter has very much delighted me.1 That my essay on bees2 has given many facts new and interesting to you, will encourage and incite me most efficaciously to apply my leisure-time also whilst this coming summer and the next ones to the observation of bees.
I have read with the greatest interest your courious observations “on the routes of the males of Bombus”.3 The fact was quite unknown to me, and I will do my best for making observations on this subject. Many thanks for your great kindness in having confided to me your manuscript.
My work on the fertilisation of flowers by insects and the reciprocal adaptations of both is now finished, and yesterday I have sent the manuscript to the publisher (W. Engelmann of Leipzig) As soon as I receive exemplars, I send you one.4
With my best thanks believe me, my dear Sir | yours very sincerely | H Müller.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Marginalia: Charles Darwin’s marginalia. Edited by Mario A. Di Gregorio with the assistance of Nicholas W. Gill. Vol. 1. New York and London: Garland Publishing. 1990.
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.
Summary
Thanks CD for MS on the routes of male bees.
His "Fertilisation of flowers" is complete [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8313
- From
- Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Lippstadt
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 298
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8313,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8313.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
