To Fritz Müller 22 April [1867]
Summary
Self-sterility in orchids.
Growth differences in plants raised from self- and cross-fertilised seed.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 22 Apr [1867] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 15) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5509 |
To Fritz Müller [9 and] 15 April [1866]
Summary
Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.
Fertilisation of Aristolochia.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].
Is preparing new edition of Origin.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 9 and 15 Apr 1866 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5050 |
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- … Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] . CD’s notes on Lobelia are in DAR 49: 85, 88, 88v. It appears in a list of plants, ‘apparently adapted to prevent self fertilization’, in DAR 117: 71. For more on the pollination mechanisms of Scaevola , Leschenaultia , Lobelia , and related genera, see ML 2: 257–9. Müller was unable to perform the experiments with Scaevola because all his specimens died ( Correspondence vol. 15, letter from Fritz Müller, 4 March 1867 ). …
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Darwin in Conversation exhibition
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Meet Charles Darwin as you have never met him before. Come to our exhibition at Cambridge University Library, running from 9 July to 3 December 2022, and discover a fascinating series of interwoven conversations with Darwin's many hundreds of…
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