From Hermann Müller 8 March 1870
Summary
HM intends studying bees to find evidence supporting CD’s theories. His work has shown him there are problems in separating species from varieties, and has also revealed many surprising instances of variation in habits.
| Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 296 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7130 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Scientific Opinion 3: 111–12, 135–7. Müller, Hermann. 1869. Die Anwendung der Darwin’schen …
- … vol. 17, letter from Hermann Müller, 12 November 1869 ). No letter from CD to Müller on …
- … Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867 ). Müller’s paper, ‘Anwendung der Darwin’schen Lehre auf Bienen’ (Application of Darwinian theory to bees), was published in 1872 ( H. Müller 1872 ). Federico Delpino translated and annotated H. Müller 1869 ( …
To Hermann Müller 14 March 1870
Summary
Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884, pp. 19–20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7131 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Rempel’s Buchhandlung (E. Hegener). Müller, Hermann. 1869. Die Anwendung der Darwin’schen …
- … Hermann Müller, 8 March 1870 . Müller had sent CD a copy of his paper ‘Die Anwendung der Darwin’schen Lehre auf Blumen und blumen-besuchende Insekten’ (The application of Darwinian theory to flowers and flower-visiting insects; H. Müller 1869 ). …
- … Hermann Müller, 23 October 1867 ). He found that different species possessed specialised channels adapted to different sizes of pollen. Müller had noted that several flowers opened only at night; these were never visited by diurnal species like bees or flies but only by butterflies and especially moths ( H. Müller 1869 , …
From Federico Delpino [1870]
Summary
Sends CD "L’applicazione della teoria Darwiniana ai fiori ed agli insetti visitatori dei fiori" [Bull. Soc. Entomol. Ital. 2 (1870)]. Continues to support vitalism and teleology.
| Author: | Federico Delpino |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1870] |
| Classmark: | DAR 162: 141 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7055 |
From J. D. Hooker 1 July 1870
Summary
Hibiscus and Nolana seeds not harvested at Kew. Sends list of the best plants of Lilium he can give.
Asks CD for name of work on orchids mentioned in his supplementary paper ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 July 1870 |
| Classmark: | DAR 103: 51–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7258 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Müller, Hermann | (2) |
| Delpino, Federico | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
