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Hermann Müller
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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…
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- … Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the …
- … beetle; it was the subject of his first scientific paper (Müller 1856). In the autumn of 1855 …
- … from her first marriage; the couple had three more children. Müller had become a full teacher by …
- … in the whole province. As a scientific researcher, Müller did not need to look further than …
- … to focus on Crustacea in his book, Für Darwin , so Hermann chose to study mosses from the …
- … In early spring 1867, Darwin initiated a correspondence with Müller, but that letter has not been …
- … replied encouragingly and in the summer of 1867, Müller began working on fertilisation of orchids …
- … unwanted visitors from gaining access. In October 1867, Müller sent Darwin a letter describing …
- … research along these lines led to the publication in 1873 of Müller’s seminal work on co-adaptation, …
- … Darwin could not wait to finish the book before sending Müller his reaction, noting that he had …
- … was the introduction he wrote to the English edition of Müller’s book, published in 1883. …
- … (known as ultramontanists by their opponents). Throughout, Müller received the support of the …
- … the teaching of ‘scientific hypotheses’ that began in 1877. This challenge came from within the …
- … resulted in a limiting of the kind of teaching that Müller advocated. Müller fought against this …
Cross and self fertilisation
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The effects of cross and self fertilisation in the vegetable kingdom, published on 10 November 1876, was the result of a decade-long project to provide evidence for Darwin’s belief that ‘‘Nature thus tells us, in the most emphatic manner, that she abhors…
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- … of self-fertility over subsequent generations. In June 1869, Müller remarked, on receiving a new …
- … relationship had lessened the fertility of the offspring (F. Müller 1868b, p. 629). Darwin urged …
- … will be published’ ( To J. V. Carus, 8 May [1873] ). Hermann Müller also wrote from Germany, …
- … will decide in a great measure my further working’ ( From Hermann Müller, 10 June 1873 ). Darwin, …
- … though we have reached them by different routes’ ( To Hermann Müller, 30 May 1873 ). Although …
- … to intercross’ ( To Thomas Meehan, 3 October 1875 ). Hermann Müller had also read Meehan’s work …
- … their best work in order to obscure this matter’ ( From Hermann Müller, 23 October 1875 ). The …
- … for half a century after Kölreuter’s papers’ ( To Hermann Müller, 26 October 1875 ). Darwin’s copy …
- … worth reading. ( To Otto Zacharias, 5 October [1876] ). Hermann Müller, in contrast, wrote that …
- … silence writers like Meehan, Pedecino, and Comes ( From Hermann Müller, 4 October 1876 ). …
- … of plants.’ ( From Friedrich Hildebrand, 18 January 1877 ). Hermann Müller enthused that Darwin’s …
- … most efficacious encouragement for further work’ ( From Hermann Müller, 6 December 1876 ). …
- … my book’ ( To Gardeners’ Chronicle , 19 February [1877] ). In contrast, as Hooker told Darwin, …
- … gloats over it' ( From J. D. Hooker, 27 January 1877 ). Darwin was especially pleased with …
- … have quite eviscerated it’ ( To Asa Gray, 18 February [1877] ). By mid-March 1877, the edition was …
- … index a little altered’ ( To R. F. Cooke, 11 December [1877] ). These changes were necessitated by …
- … wheat that he had studied ( From A. W. Rimpau, 10 December 1877 ). By the end of February 1878, …
Darwin in letters, 1879: Tracing roots
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Darwin spent a considerable part of 1879 in the eighteenth century. His journey back in time started when he decided to publish a biographical account of his grandfather Erasmus Darwin to accompany a translation of an essay on Erasmus’s evolutionary ideas…
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- … Virchow’s attempt to discredit evolutionary theory in 1877, assured him that his views were now …
- … 9 February 1879 ). The botanist and schoolteacher Hermann Müller wrote on 12 February to wish …
- … day , in which he expressed his distress at hearing that Müller had been treated shamefully by the …
- … party in the German house of representatives had accused Müller of corrupting his students by …
- … statement ‘In the beginning was carbon’ ( letter from Hermann Müller, 14 February 1879 ). …
- … editor of the journal Kosmos , which had been founded in 1877 by Krause and others as a journal …
- … and particularly the theory of natural selection in 1877) had previously told Krause, ‘He is a very …
- … of laws he had received from Cambridge University in 1877. Emma Darwin recorded that Darwin found …
- … or working for the public good. Darwin promoted Fritz Müller’s discoveries in Brazil by enabling the …
Photograph album of German and Austrian scientists
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The album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade, and contained 165 portraits of German and Austrian scientists. The work was lavishly produced and bound in blue velvet with metal embossing. Its ornate…
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- … album was sent to Darwin to mark his birthday on 12 February 1877 by the civil servant Emil Rade …
- … have ever received ( Letter to Ernst Haeckel, 16 February 1877 ) …
- … the start of his 70th year, but Darwin was only 68 in 1877. Despite this oversight, the album …
- … world.— ( Letter from Leonard Blomefield, 12 March 1877 ) Familiar faces Ernst …
- … with the final album. He wrote to Darwin on 9 February 1877 : ‘what will perhaps astonish you is …
- … to see the picture of the German schoolteacher and botanist Hermann Müller in the album. He had …
- … worth to give you ( Letter from J. V. Carus, 22 March 1877 ) The professor of …
- … scientific work. ( Letter from C. G. Semper, 26 April 1877 ) Carl Kraus, an …
Forms of flowers
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Darwin’s book The different forms of flowers on plants of the same species, published in 1877, investigated the structural differences in the sexual organs of flowers of the same species. It drew on and expanded five articles Darwin had published on the…
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- … of flowers on plants of the same species , published in 1877, investigated the structural …
- … exhibited different forms . With typical enthusiasm, Müller had reported finding several new …
- … proves the absolute distinctness of the parents ’. Fritz Müller was enthusiastic, commenting, ‘ …
- … of Linum’ (p. 82) and clarified the meaning to Fritz Müller in a letter in September 1866, ‘ What I …
- … his papers on forms of flowers into a book. By January 1877, Darwin informed Hooker, ‘ …I am only …
- … without comparing pollen-grains & stigmas’. When Hermann Müller wrote to say that, in his …
- … illegitimate offspring of heterostyled plants. By late March 1877 Darwin told Carus that he was …
- … . He contacted his publisher John Murray in early April 1877, telling him, ‘ I wish the …
Darwin in letters, 1864: Failing health
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On receiving a photograph from Charles Darwin, the American botanist Asa Gray wrote on 11 July 1864: ‘the venerable beard gives the look of your having suffered, and … of having grown older’. Because of poor health, Because of poor health, Darwin…
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- … of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’), and later in his 1877 book, The different forms of flowers on …
- … a letter, insect specimens, and an article on orchids from Hermann Crüger, head of the botanic …
- … in the second edition of Orchids , published in 1877. These publications were partly inspired by …
- … work was being read with particular enthusiasm in Germany. Hermann Kindt, a German living in England …
- … the materialist philosophy of Ludwig Buchner ( letter from Hermann Kindt, 5 September 1864 ). …
Movement in Plants
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The power of movement in plants, published on 7 November 1880, was the final large botanical work that Darwin wrote. It was the only work in which the assistance of one of his children, Francis Darwin, is mentioned on the title page. The research for this…
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- … ‘Very curious results’ In May 1877, Darwin asked one of his most trusted …
- … of movement ( letter from R. I. Lynch, [before 28 July 1877] ). ‘ I do not believe I sh d . …
- … his work on movement with other correspondents. He told Hermann Müller, ‘ I am working away on …
- … those of Gray, who had written an article on the subject in 1877 (A. Gray 1877e). Gray had reported …
Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings
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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…
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- … the Oxford professor of oriental languages, Friedrich Max Müller. George’s article also rehearsed …
- … which had become a debating point between Whitney and Max Müller. In Descent 2d ed., pp. 86–8, …
- … through unconscious processes, and had criticised Max Müller’s insistence that language was an …
- … Darwin 1874c, p. 894). On previous occasions, Max Müller and Darwin had aired their …
- … vol. 21), and George’s review prompted Max Müller to write to Darwin affirming that his convictions …
- … I find it in language & what is implied by language.’ Max Müller also published an article in …
- … offer on astronomy, or the Duke of Wellington on art (Max Müller 1875, pp. 305–7). The debate …
- … long-term correspondents such as Ernst Haeckel, Fritz and Hermann Müller, and Anton Dohrn. …
- … were involved in the launch of Kosmos in April 1877. From Haeckel, Darwin received a copy of a …
