From Raphael Meldola 2 January [1878]
Summary
Wishes to borrow third part of Fritz Müller’s article on sexual selection in butterflies [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 218–24].
Is forwarding material on stridulation, including Prof. Wood-Mason’s paper ["Note on Mygale stridulans", Trans. R. Entomol. Soc. Lond. (1877): 281–2], which should interest CD.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 121 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11308 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … the publication of these notes from a letter by Fritz Müller ; see Correspondence vol. 25, …
- … Fritz Müller’s article in Kosmos of Dec. if you will kindly send it to me by post. I returned the No. you were good enough to send me on Oct. 22 nd . a few days after you sent it. I hope it has not been lost in the post. A letter …
From Raphael Meldola 23 May 1878
Summary
Prof. Wood-Mason has examined Otto Zacharias’ insect photographs and confirmed the genera.
RM is going to work up Fritz Müller’s observations into a paper.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 May 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11524 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … on its normally hidden hindwings. See letter to Fritz Müller, 16 May 1878 and n. 3. Cassia …
- … letter confirming the generic name ( Pterochroza ) I sent to you. No. 1, of which I could not find a specimen in the B.M. , is probably P . ocellata Serville. À propos of the little beetles which came out of Fritz Müller’ …
From Fritz Müller 5 April 1878
Summary
Observations on a sensitive Mimosa.
Comments on structure and positioning of "odoriferous organs" of moths and butterflies,
and feeding habits of butterfly larvae.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11463 |
From Francis Darwin [22 June 1878]
Summary
Describes his talk with Julius von Sachs about canary-grass.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [22 June 1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 51 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12131F |
From Raphael Meldola 13 June 1878
Summary
Would like to read Weismann’s essay on Daphnidae.
Fritz Müller’s paper on odours emitted by butterflies was read at last Entomological Society meeting.
Author: | Raphael Meldola |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 June 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 129 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11553 |
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 3 February [1878]
Summary
Thanks for letter. CD now has all the seeds and information he requires.
Value and origin of amphicarpic habit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
Date: | 3 Feb [1878] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 108–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11344 |
To Hermann Müller 1 January [1878]
Summary
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 438 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11307 |
To Raphael Meldola 1 January [1878]
Summary
Good article by Fritz Müller in Kosmos supporting August Weismann’s views on caterpillars.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11305 |
From Hermann Müller 5 July 1878
Summary
Reports results of crosses between the two forms of Viola tricolor: 1. Female small flower crossed with male large flower yields all small flowers (cleistogamous self-fertilisation suspected); 2. Male small flower crossed with female large yields intermediate flowers; 3. Large flower crossed with large flower yields self-sterility symptoms.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 July 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11592 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Fritz Müller’s daughters Anna and Emma had travelled to Germany in May 1878 ( West 2016 , p. 153). The seeds have not been identified but may have included seeds of Cassia (see letter …
- … Fritz Müller, 24 July 1878 ). Viola tricolor is heart’s-ease; Viola tricolor var. arvensis is a synonym of Viola arvensis , the field pansy. CD had advised Müller on crossing experiments with V. tricolor and other plants with two different kinds of flowers in a letter …
From Fritz Müller 20 February 1878
Summary
Reports butterfly species that apparently mimic each other and gives details of some odoriferous species.
[Letter copied in Raphael Meldola’s hand from original sent to Meldola with 11449.]
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Feb 1878 |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11368 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Müller had visited the area from 8 to 18 February 1878 (Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 372–6). Müller had found this species on an earlier expedition to the highlands of Santa Catarina and had written to CD that he hoped to be able to send him seeds in a few months (see Correspondence vol. 25, letter from Fritz …
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Darwin, C. R. | (19) |
Meldola, Raphael | (6) |
Müller, Fritz | (3) |
Darwin, Francis | (1) |
Müller, Hermann | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Meldola, Raphael | (9) |
Müller, Fritz | (4) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |
Ernst, Adolf | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (30) |
Meldola, Raphael | (15) |
Müller, Fritz | (7) |
Müller, Hermann | (2) |
Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (2) |