From Fritz Müller 31 August 1865
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.]
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Aug 1865 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 73–4. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4885A |
From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865]
Summary
FM’s comments on Climbing Plants.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 and 31 Aug 1865 and 10 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | Notes on some of the climbing-plants near Desterro, in South Brazil. By Herr Fritz Müller, in a letter to C. Darwin. [Read 7 December 1865.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 9 (1866): 344–9. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881F |
Matches: 5 hits
- … From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] …
- … Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller 12 Aug 1865 31 Aug 1865 10 Oct 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … vol. 12, letter from J. D. Hooker, 2 December 1864 and n. 10, and letter to J. D. …
- … vol. 12, letters to J. D. Hooker, 4 December [1864] and n. 13, and 10 December [1864] …
- … 12 March 1864 , and [before 31 March 1864] , letter to Daniel Oliver, 11 March [1864] , and letters to J. D. Hooker, [27 January 1864] , [8 February 1864] , and 3 November [1864] ). Müller may be referring to CD’s remark on page 112 of ‘Climbing plants’ , that he knew ‘nothing of any transitional states’, if such occurred, between branches and tendrils; however, CD gave as an example Lophospermum , in which branches spontaneously revolve and are sensitive to contact, to suggest that such modifications were possible; see also ibid. , p. 10. …
From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Sends a paper ["Über das Holz einiger um Desterro wachsender Kletterpflanzen", Botanische Zeitung 24 (1866): 57–60, 65–9].
Believes species of sponge with different mineral spiculae are descended from a form with organic spiculae.
Reports observations on motions of Linum stalks following the sun.
Regards Anelasma as a connecting form between cirripedes and Rhizocephala.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 10 Oct 1865 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 74–6. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4912A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … as the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; see also letter …
- … 12 August 1865 ; see, however, the letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] and nn. 9 and 10. …
- … 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a transcription of this letter in the German of its published source, see pp. 266–7. See letter to Fritz Müller, 10 …
- … 12. CD had offered Müller a copy of the German translation of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862) in his letter to Müller of 10 …
From Fritz Müller 12 August 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for his paper on climbing plants. Lists the many genera that he has found in his area in a short period since reading CD’s paper. [See 4881.]
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Aug 1865 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 72–3. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881A |
From Fritz Müller 5 November 1865
Summary
Thanks CD for the copy of Orchids and papers on Linum and Lythrum [Collected papers 2: 93–105; 106–31].
Intends to travel to the River Itajahy and will make observations on climbing plants. Is not sure whether Dalbergia is a winding plant.
CD has changed FM’s whole perception of nature.
CD has helped him to understand distribution of coastal flora.
The vegetation on Desterro is changing.
Louis Agassiz is seeking evidence against transmutation in the distribution of the fish in the Amazon.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 5 Nov 1865 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 76–7. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4929A |
