To Hermann Müller 7 August 1876
Down, Beckenham, Kent
Aug: 7 1876
My dear Sir
— —I was much interested by your brother’s article on Hedychium;1 about two years ago I was so convinced that the flowers were fertilized by the tips of the wings of large moths, that I wrote to India to ask a man to observe the flowers and catch the moths at work, and he sent me 20 to 30 sphinx-moths, but so badly packed that they all arrived in fragments!2 and I could make out nothing.— —
Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Müller, Hermann. 1873–7. On the fertilisation of flowers by insects and on the reciprocal adaptations of both. Nature, 3 July 1873, pp. 187–9; 10 July 1873, pp. 205–6; 25 September 1873, pp. 433–5; 20 November 1873, pp. 44–6; 1 January 1874, pp. 164–6; 18 June 1874, pp. 129–30; 12 November 1874, pp. 32–3; 10 December 1874, pp. 110–12; 31 December 1874, pp. 169–71; 20 May 1875, pp. 50–1; 8 July 1875, pp. 190–1; 13 January 1876, pp. 210–12; 10 February 1876, pp. 289–92; 22 June 1876, pp. 173–5; 8 February 1877, pp. 317–19; 29 March 1877, pp. 473–5; 11 October 1877, pp. 507–9.
Summary
Comments on Fritz Müller’s article on Hedychium.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-10572
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- DAR 146: 437
- Physical description
- C 1p inc
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Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10572,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10572.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24