To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865]
Summary
Thanks for interesting letter on climbing plants.
FM’s view on Anelasma seems probable.
Difficulty quoted by FM from A. Agassiz on embryology of Echinodermata is quite beyond CD.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 20 Sept [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4895 |
Matches: 25 hits
- … To Fritz Müller 20 September [1865] …
- … 10 no 2) Charles Robert Darwin Down 20 Sept [1865] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . See …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 1, and letter …
- … from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet received …
- … Müller’s second letter on twining plants of 31 August 1865 (see letter to …
- … Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). The information on Haplolophium and …
- … is contained in the section of the 12 August 1865 letter from Fritz Müller that was later …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
- … 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 1; …
- … the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 11). Müller included drawings of …
- … CD (see letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ), and some of these were reproduced in …
- … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and nn. 16–18). CD’s observations on …
- … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 19). CD refers to Bronn trans. …
- … 1864] . The letter from Müller of 12 August 1865 is incomplete. The section of the letter …
- … also letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n. 5). In Living Cirripedia (1851) , …
- … see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n. 7). CD evidently reconsidered the …
- … in the missing section of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter from …
- … Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). Since Müller would …
- … not have received CD’s letter of 10 August [1865] when he wrote his own …
- … letter to CD on 12 August 1865 , it appears that the possibility of Anelasma as a …
- … section of Müller’s letter of 12 August 1865 in which he discussed Alexander Agassiz’s …
- … found. Agassiz’s letter to Müller, 9 March 1865 , which contains these observations, is …
- … Fritz Müller to Alexander Agassiz, 29 June 1865 , in Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 64–7) that …
To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865]
Summary
Is sending FM’s two letters on climbing plants as a paper to the Linnean Society ["Notes on some of the climbing plants near Desterro, in south Brazil", J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Adaptations for pollination in Catasetum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 17 Oct [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 3) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4916 |
Matches: 17 hits
- … To Fritz Müller 17 October [1865] …
- … 10 no 3) Charles Robert Darwin Down 17 Oct [1865] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … CD refers to the letter from Fritz Müller, 31 August 1865 . Müller’s first letter on …
- … climbing plants was the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . See the letter from …
- … Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , for the missing portion of …
- … the letter of 31 August 1865 containing Müller’s botanical observations. Müller’s letters …
- … see letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] ). Parts of Müller’s first two letters, …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 127–35. ‘Fertilization of orchids’: Notes on …
- … from Müller’s third letter of 10 October 1865 , were submitted by CD to the Journal of the …
- … the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August and 10 October 1865] . See letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] . CD later sent the letter to …
- … who made corrections (see letter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] , and letter from …
- … Daniel Oliver, 23 October 1865 ). The term ‘bracteæ’ does not appear in the published …
- … 12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). Only one plate accompanied the published paper ( …
- … 1865b and letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 5). …
- … See letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] . CD’s discussion of the genus Catasetum …
To Fritz Müller 9 December [1865]
Summary
Has forwarded FM’s MS to Max Schultze, but did not read it.
Movement of stem apex in Linum.
Haeckel’s paper on reproduction in certain Medusae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 9 Dec [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4949 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … To Fritz Müller 9 December [1865] …
- … 10 no 4) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Dec [1865] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … 1862). See letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] ). CD refers to Rosa Müller . …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and n. 12. Haeckel 1865b described two …
- … see letter to Ernst Haeckel, 6 December [1865] and n. 9). In his paper, Haeckel had …
- … relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 . See …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and n. 10. CD …
- … contained in Müller’s letter of 10 October 1865 to the paper he sent to the Linnean …
- … Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 1. Müller had sent CD the …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and nn. 6 and 7. CD’s letter to Schultze …
- … to send a copy directly to CD (see letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 and n. 8). …
- … In his letter to CD of 10 October 1865 , Müller had discussed the problem of explaining, …
- … component. In his letter of 10 October 1865 , Müller had requested the original English …
To Fritz Müller 11 January 1866
Summary
Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.
Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.
CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Jan 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4972 |
Matches: 21 hits
- … Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest. Has also read …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13). No request by …
- … 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] ; for Müller’s receipt of the book, see …
- … of Müller in his letter of 10 August [1865] ( Correspondence vol. 13), and Müller …
- … he had had one made ( ibid. , letter from Müller, 10 October 1865) . It is likely that the …
- … the letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13). Although the …
- … see plate opposite p. 185). Earlier in 1865, CD had sent a photograph of himself to …
- … Correspondence vol. 13, letter from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). CD refers to F. …
- … 1865a . In his letter of 10 October 1865 ( Correspondence vol. 13), Müller mentioned that …
- … 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 9 December [1865] . An offprint of F. Müller 1865a , with a …
- … Pamphlet Collection–CUL. In the summer of 1865, CD had been reading back issues from the …
- … vol. 13, letter to A. R. Wallace, 22 September [1865] and n. 4, and letters to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 27 [or 28 September 1865] and n. …
- … 12, and 22 and 28 [October 1865] ). …
- … Between 1857 and 1865, the journal published twelve translations of papers by Müller, all …
- … 13, letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 and n. 13). The river is in the north-east …
- … see Correspondence vol. 13, letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 and n. 14). …
- … The expedition, which left New York on 1 April 1865 and returned on 6 August 1866, was …
- … 13, letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] and n. 12. On Agassiz’s controversial …
- … and 44–65. In his letter to CD of 5 November 1865 , Müller referred to the landscape and …
- … to M. J. S. Schultze dated 11 March 1865 ( Möller 1915–21 , 2: 62), Müller described …
To Fritz Müller 10 August [1865]
Summary
Has read and admires FM’s work on species.
Observations on Crustacea are good and original; asks FM to dissect and check some of CD’s observations on cirripedes.
Has sent "Climbing plants" paper [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 10 Aug [1865] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4881 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … To Fritz Müller 10 August [1865] …
- … 10 no 1) Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 Aug [1865] Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller …
- … paper [ J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 9 (1865): 1–118] and would like to send Orchids . …
- … By Charles Darwin. [ Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
- … to Ludwig of £5 11 s. 6 d. on 10 June 1865 for translation. An annotated copy of Müller …
- … named concerns trimorphism (see letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 and n. 2). …
- … plants’ , which was published on 12 June 1865 in the Journal of the Linnean Society ( …
- … and letter from Henry Holland, 2 January 1865 , n. 5). CD did not name in his published …
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 |
Matches: 10 hits
- … From Fritz Müller 31 August 1865 …
- … Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Desterro, Brazil 31 Aug 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … see the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . See …
- … also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 11. …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a transcription of this letter …
- … vol. 13, p. 227. See also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. ‘Climbing …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . For the missing portion of the letter, …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 31. August 1865. Verehrter Herr! Ich hoffe, Sie werden einen Brief …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 31 August 1865 My dear Sir, I hope you have received in good order a …
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 |
Matches: 13 hits
- … From Fritz Müller 12 August 1865 …
- … Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] ). …
- … Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Desterro, Brazil 12 Aug 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 12. August 1865. Verehrter Herr! Vor wenigen Tagen empfing ich Ihre …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 12. August 1865 My dear Sir, A few days ago I received your essay on …
- … The resulting paper was read on 7 December 1865, and published in the 29 November 1866 …
- … 12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] , and Müller 1865b ). When CD was preparing the …
- … altered only a few words’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ; see also letter to …
- … Fritz Müller, 9 December [1865] ; for more on the modifications made to Müller’s letters, …
- … see the letter to J. D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] , and the letter to …
- … See letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] , n. 4. Bomarea is now considered to be a …
- … 12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 18). A misspelling of Brachypterys. A …
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: 16 hits
- … From Fritz Müller 10 October 1865 …
- … Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Desterro, Brazil 10 Oct 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a translation of this letter, …
- … I. See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a transcription of this letter …
- … source, see pp. 266–7. See letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] . Müller refers to …
- … see letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] , n. 2). CD had probably sent the photograph …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 10. October 1865. Verehrter Herr! Gestern empfing ich Ihren freundlichen …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 10 October 1865 My dear Sir, Yesterday I received your kind letter of …
- … missing section of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 ; see, however, the letter …
- … to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] and nn. 9 and 10. The Swedish naturalist Wilhelm …
- … translation of Orchids (Bronn trans. 1862) in his letter to Müller of 10 August [1865] . …
- … In his letter of 20 September [1865] , CD wrote that he had sent it. The reference is to …
- … the wood of twining plants to Schultze (see letter to Fritz Müller, 9 December [1865] ). …
- … In a letter of 12 December 1865, Müller asked Schultze to try to get the essay published …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; see also letter from …
- … Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 11. Rosa Müller . Müller later published the …
To Fritz Müller 23 May 1866
Summary
Thanks for information on orchids
and facts on coastal flora and fauna.
Asks FM to look out for dimorphic aquatic and marsh plants.
Has read pamphlets "in our favour" by Carl v. Nägeli and Oscar Schmidt.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 May 1866 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 7) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5097 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 127–35. Forms of flowers : The different forms …
- … 29: 8–23. Nägeli, Carl Wilhelm von. 1865. Entstehung und Begriff der naturhistorischen …
- … and Unger 1866, pp. 3–36, and Nägeli 1865 , both of which are in the Darwin Pamphlet …
- … Collection–CUL. CD’s copy of Nägeli 1865 is heavily annotated and there is a partial …
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: 14 hits
- … From Fritz Müller [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] …
- … a letter to C. Darwin. [Read 7 December 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) …
- … 9 (1866): 344–9. Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller 12 Aug 1865 31 …
- … Aug 1865 10 …
- … Oct 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) (see letters to Fritz Müller , 17 October [1865] and …
- … 9 December [1865] ). The texts of the original three letters cannot be distinguished in …
- … relationship between these letters and the letters to Fritz Müller , 17 October [1865] and …
- … 9 December [1865] . See …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 11. In ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 110–11, CD …
- … sketches of the plants he described with his letter of 31 August 1865 (see letter to J. …
- … D. Hooker, 3 October [1865] and n. 3). When CD informed Müller that he would submit …
- … letter to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). The printed version included one woodcut ( …
To Fritz Müller 11 February 1868
Summary
Is working on sexual selection and is interested in any anomalous sex ratios in lower animals and any sex-related characters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 11 Feb 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 21) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5860 |
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 |
Matches: 12 hits
- … From Fritz Müller 5 November 1865 …
- … Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller Desterro, Brazil 5 Nov 1865 Charles Robert Darwin …
- … By Charles Darwin. [Read 2 February 1865. ] Journal of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 ( …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 5. November 1865. Verehrter Herr! Ich habe Ihnen zu danken für Ihren …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a translation of this letter, …
- … 294–6. In his letter of 20 September [1865] , CD said that he had sent Müller the German …
- … Desterro, Brazil, 5. November 1865. My dear Sir, I have to thank you for your kind letter …
- … a voyage on the Amazon River, in April 1865. While on the steamer travelling from New York …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 8 (1865): 169–96. [ Collected papers 2: 106–31. ] ‘Two …
- … thick trunks in his letter of 20 September [1865] . In ‘Climbing plants’ , p. 21, CD had …
- … 5). See letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] . Origin. The first German edition was …
- … to J. D. Hooker, 22 and 28 [October 1865] and nn. 12–14). Müller explored the region of …
To Fritz Müller 3 June 1868
Summary
Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.
Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.
Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.
Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 3 June 1868 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6224 |
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 |
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 25 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for facts on orchids.
Friedrich Hildebrand’s new book on fertilisation of plants [Die Geschlechten-Vertheilung bei den Pflanzen (1867)].
CD correcting proofs of Variation.
FM likes Ernst Haeckel’s book [Generelle Morphologie (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 14) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5458 |
To Fritz Müller [late December 1866 and] 1 January 1867
Summary
Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.
Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 31 Dec 1866 and 1 Jan 1867 |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5331 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). CD planned to send copies of the paper …
To Fritz Müller [before 10 December 1866]
Summary
Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].
Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.
Haeckel has visited Down.
FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | [before 10 Dec 1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5261 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ). See letter to Linnean Society, 7 …
To Fritz Müller 23 August [1866]
Summary
Thanks for observations on orchids.
FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146]; CD has received proofs.
Carl Claus’s pamphlet on copepods [Die Copepodenfauna von Nizza (1866)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 23 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5196 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … The first two parts appeared in 1862 and 1865. CD’s complete set is in the Darwin Library– …
To Fritz Müller 25 September [1866]
Summary
Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.
Self-sterility.
Climbing plants.
Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Date: | 25 Sept [1866] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5216 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter to Ernst Haeckel, 6 December [1865] and n. 9). Haeckel claimed to have discovered …
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Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Müller, Fritz | (17) |
Darwin, C. R. | (17) |
Müller, Fritz | (17) |
Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments
Summary
The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…
Matches: 29 hits
- … In 1865, the chief work on Charles Darwin’s mind was the writing of The …
- … However, several smaller projects came to fruition in 1865, including the publication of his long …
- … of Hugh Falconer Darwin’s first letter to Hooker of 1865 suggests that the family had had a …
- … the house jolly’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). Darwin was ready to submit his …
- … letter from Hugh Falconer to Erasmus Alvey Darwin, 3 January 1865 ). Erasmus forwarded his letters …
- … laboured in vain’ ( letter to Hugh Falconer, 6 January [1865] ). Sic transit gloria …
- … the world goes.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 2 February [1865] ). However, Hooker, at the time …
- … are unalloyed’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 3 February 1865 ). Darwin, now ‘haunted’ by …
- … with a vengeance’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] ). Continuing ill-health …
- … to try anyone’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). He particularly hated being ill …
- … of life. He wrote to Charles Lyell on 22 January [1865] , ‘unfortunately reading makes my head …
- … it up by early July ( see letter to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865] ). In July, he consulted …
- … bread & meat’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 15 August [1865] ). By October, Darwin thought he might be …
- … to Jones’s diet ( see letter to T. H. Huxley, 4 October [1865] ). It was not until December, …
- … hour on most days’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 22 December [1865] ). Delays and …
- … last & concluding one’ ( letter to John Murray, 31 March [1865] ). In April he authorised …
- … press in the autumn’ ( letter to John Murray, 4 April [1865] ). In early June, he wrote to Murray …
- … when I can do anything’ ( letter to John Murray, 2 June [1865] ). It was not until 25 December …
- … of the woodcuts ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 7 January [1865] ). After sending the manuscript to the …
- … like tartar emetic’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 19 January [1865] ). An abstract of the paper …
- … for it is your child’ ( letter to Asa Gray, 19 April 1865 ; Darwin noted at the beginning of …
- … the Linnean Society ( letter to [Richard Kippist], 4 June [1865] ). The paper was published in a …
- … German, he had it translated, and wrote to Müller in August 1865 that he had just finished hearing …
- … letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ; since it is impossible to …
- … clearly understand (l etter to Daniel Oliver, 20 October [1865] ). Darwin was particularly …
- … scientific work’ ( letter to Fritz Müller, 20 September [1865] ), he clearly read Müller’s letters …
- … from sea-sickness ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ). This may have been unwise: Thomas …
- … & ability’ ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [10 March 1865] ). Scott took these criticisms, no …
- … again when he had time ( letter from John Scott, 21 July 1865 ); at the time of writing, he had …
Darwin's notes for his physician, 1865
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On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London publisher who had studied medicine in London and Paris in the early 1840s, visited Down to consult with Darwin about his ill health. In 1863 Chapman started to treat…
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- … On 20 May 1865, Emma Darwin recorded in her diary that John Chapman, a prominent London …
- … Darwin wrote that he fell ill again on 22 April 1865 and was unable to ‘do anything.’ Emma Darwin’s …
- … hand). Darwin began the ice treatment on 20 May 1865. In his letter to Chapman of 7 June 1865 …
- … from Charles and Emma Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [10 July 1865]). Darwin’s condition had been …
- … and George Busk (see letter to J. D. Hooker, [7 January 1865], and letter from George Busk, 28 April …
Prize possessions: To Henry Denny, 17 January [1865]
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Between 1980 and 2018, I was honorary curator of the Alfred Denny Museum of Zoology in the University of Sheffield. One of our prize possessions was a letter from Darwin to Henry Denny, then curator and assistant secretary of the Literary and Philosophical…
The Lyell–Lubbock dispute
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In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in his book Prehistoric times, accused Lyell of plagiarism. The dispute caused great dismay among many of their mutual scientific friends, some of whom took immediate action…
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- … In May 1865 a dispute arose between John Lubbock and Charles Lyell when Lubbock, in …
- … basis of Lubbock’s book, Prehistoric times (Lubbock 1865). By 1860, Lyell had begun work …
- … material available pertaining to the antiquity of humans. In 1865, he wrote that the section on …
- … not pursue any grievance against Lyell until the spring of 1865. 13 In the course of …
- … C. Lyell 1863c and Lubbock 1861 (and consequently in Lubbock 1865), combined with the wording of …
- … between the end of February and the beginning of March 1865, Lubbock wrote the note which would …
- … received a copy of Lubbock’s book, published in mid-May 1865, he immediately wrote to express his …
- … Ramsay in a note to an article published in the April 1865 issue of the Philosophical Magazine . …
- … thought of the affair ( letter from J. D. Hooker, [2 June 1865] ). Hooker, for his part, could see …
- … for Lubbock’s book ( letter to J. D. Hooker, [4 June 1865] ). A week later he sent Lubbock a …
- … the note in the preface (letter to John Lubbock, 11 June [1865] ). No correspondence with Lyell …
- … him for an opinion ( letter from J. D. Hooker, 13 July 1865 ), Darwin wrote back ( letter to J. D …
- … and Lubbock had no direct communication after the end of May 1865, each appealing to friends to …
- … Thus, in print-runs after the end of June 1865, Lubbock had cancelled his note at the end of the …
- … of both interested parties. Only one known review of Lubbock 1865 draws attention to Lubbock’s note; …
- … situation was succinct. In his letter to Hooker of [4 June 1865] he warned that no one could do …
- … (C. Lyell 1863c; see letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] and n. 13). The third edition had …
- … vii–ix (revised version of last section, printed in August 1865, but dated 1863 on the title page) …
- … of the ‘ Elements of geology ’ 34 [C. Lyell 1865], and the printed proofs were transferred …
- … (see enclosure to letter from J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ). Later, Lubbock claimed that he had …
- … the note which appeared at the end of the preface to Lubbock 1865. He told Hooker, ‘I did not trust …
- … ours’ (letter from John Lubbock to J. D. Hooker, 23 June 1865, in Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, …
How to manage it: To J. D. Hooker, [17 June 1865]
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Sometimes, what stands out in a Darwin letter is not what is in it, but what is left out or just implied because the recipient would have known what Darwin was referring to. It is frustrating to spend hours looking but fail to identify something mentioned…
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- … found in a relatively short letter written by Darwin in June 1865 to his close friend Joseph …
- … this letter was a reply ( From J. D. Hooker, [15 June 1865] ), but there was no mention of any …
- … Indian mutiny. At least three novels had been written around 1865. Suddenly, ‘How to’ made sense: …
- … a favourable review in the Athenæum in January 1865. It had all the criteria for a novel Darwin …
Inheritance
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It was crucial to Darwin’s theories of species change that naturally occurring variations could be inherited. But at the time when he wrote Origin, he had no explanation for how inheritance worked – it was just obvious that it did. Darwin’s attempt to…
Darwin's health
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On 28 March 1849, ten years before Origin was published, Darwin wrote to his good friend Joseph Hooker from Great Malvern in Worcestershire, where Dr James Manby Gully ran a fashionable water-cure establishment. Darwin apologised for his delayed reply to…
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- … regular attacks had occurred again in the last week of April 1865, and the third week of May, just …
- … threw up food. In his letter to Chapman of 16 May [1865] , Darwin stated that his sickness was …
- … Darwin’s diary (DAR 242) on several occasions in 1864 and 1865. ‘Bad hysteria & sickness’ were …
- … difficulties reading, see letters to J. D. Hooker, 1 June [1865] and 27 [or 28 September 1865] …
George Busk
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After the Beagle voyage, Darwin’s collection of bryozoans disappears from the records until the material was sent, in 1852, for study by George Busk, one of the foremost workers on the group of his day. In 1863, on the way down to Malvern Wells, Darwin had…
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- … and Lady Lyell ( letter from J. D. Hooker [2 June 1865] ). …
3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'
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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…
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- … < Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of …
- … had been launched by Lovell Augustus Reeve in 1863, but by 1865 Edward Walford had taken over as …
- … Darwin wrote to Walford, probably in the spring of 1865, to say, ‘I should of course be proud to be …
- … more than one sitting seems to have taken place, in November 1865 and April 1866. Darwin’s account …
- … true Philosopher’. The beard that Darwin had grown by 1865–1866 helped to enhance this …
- … public image – wrote to Emma, apparently in late November 1865, to say that he was waiting for a …
- … which derived from the three-quarter view photograph of 1865–1866 mentioned above (see separate …
- … of image Ernest Edwards date of creation 1865–1866 computer-readable date …
- … Letter from Darwin to Edward Walford, 22 [Jan. – April 1865?], (DCP-LETT-5508). Letter from Erasmus …
Fake Darwin: myths and misconceptions
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Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, with full debunking below...
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- … Many myths have persisted about Darwin's life and work. Here are a few of the more pervasive ones, …
Evolution: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1860-1870
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This selection of Charles Darwin’s letters includes correspondence with his friends and scientific colleagues around the world; letters by the critics who tried to stamp out his ideas, and by admirers who helped them to spread. It takes up the story of…
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- … Darwin to Hooker (on hearing of Robert FitzRoy’s suicide), 1865. As you are now so …
Referencing women’s work
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Darwin's correspondence shows that women made significant contributions to Darwin's work, but whether and how they were acknowledged in print involved complex considerations of social standing, professional standing, and personal preference.…
Darwin on race and gender
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Darwin’s views on race and gender are intertwined, and mingled also with those of class. In Descent of man, he tried to explain the origin of human races, and many of the differences between the sexes, with a single theory: sexual selection. Sexual…
Religion
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Design|Personal Belief|Beauty|The Church Perhaps the most notorious realm of controversy over evolution in Darwin's day was religion. The same can be said of the evolution controversy today; however the nature of the disputes and the manner in…
Women’s scientific participation
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Observers | Fieldwork | Experimentation | Editors and critics | Assistants Darwin’s correspondence helps bring to light a community of women who participated, often actively and routinely, in the nineteenth-century scientific community. Here is a…
Darwin in letters, 1867: A civilised dispute
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Charles Darwin’s major achievement in 1867 was the completion of his large work, The variation of animals and plants under domestication (Variation). The importance of Darwin’s network of correspondents becomes vividly apparent in his work on expression in…
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- … started in January 1860, and advertised in the press since 1865 with the unwieldy title, …
- … apparently discussing it or showing it to anyone until 1865, when he sent a version of it to Huxley, …
- … a book based on a series of articles that had appeared in 1865. In it he challenged aspects of …
- … vol. 13, letter to J. D. Hooker, 9 February [1865] and n. 4). Darwin’s wife and children also …
3.5 William Darwin, photo 2
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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…
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- … (DCP-LETT-4707); Naudin’s gushing acknowledgement, 18 June 1865 (DCP-LETT-4863). Letter from …
Science: A Man’s World?
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Discussion Questions|Letters Darwin's correspondence show that many nineteenth-century women participated in the world of science, be it as experimenters, observers, editors, critics, producers, or consumers. Despite this, much of the…
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- … Letter 4940 - Cresy, E. to Darwin, E., [20 November 1865] Edward Cresy Jnr. seeks Darwin …
The evolution of honeycomb
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Honeycombs are natural engineering marvels, using the least possible amount of wax to provide the greatest amount of storage space, with the greatest possible structural stability. Darwin recognised that explaining the evolution of the honey-bee’s comb…
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- … precise measurement was bought to bear, a myth. In 1865, Darwin received a letter from Edward …
Race, Civilization, and Progress
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Darwin's first reflections on human progress were prompted by his experiences in the slave-owning colony of Brazil, and by his encounters with the Yahgan peoples of Tierra del Fuego. Harsh conditions, privation, poor climate, bondage and servitude,…