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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 |
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 |
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- … J. D. Hooker, 7 June [1860] ( Correspondence vol. 8). His notes on Scaevola are in his Experimental notebook (DAR 157a). CD discussed the cross-pollination mechanism of Lobelia in Origin , pp. 98–9, and Cross and self fertilisation , p. 176. See also Correspondence vol. 6, letter to Asa Gray, 5 September [1857] . …
