From A. R. Wallace 7 August 1871
Summary
Sends notes on Fritz Müller’s letter.
| Author: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Aug 1871 |
| Classmark: | DAR 89: 85–6 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7899 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … Sends notes on Fritz Müller’s letter. …
- … Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 14. See letter to Fritz Müller, 2 August [1871] . …
- … Letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 . See also letters to A. R. …
- … Darwin I send a few notes on Fritz Muller’s letter which I have read with much interest. …
- … the letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June [1871] , should be published ( letter to A. R. …
- … and 4 August [1871] . See letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 4. See letter …
- … from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 5. See letter …
- … Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 7. Müller lived in Santa Catarina province (now state), Brazil. See letter …
To J. N. Lockyer 18 February [1876]
Summary
Asks that the copy of Nature containing letter from Fritz Müller be forwarded to FM [see 10324].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Norman (Norman) Lockyer |
| Date: | 18 Feb [1876] |
| Classmark: | Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (catalogue 112, no date) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10403 |
To Raphael Meldola 27 March [1878]
Summary
Thinks RM may like to see the enclosed [Fritz Müller letter].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 27 Mar [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11449 |
To A. R. Wallace 1 August [1871]
Summary
On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820] about mimicry, protection, and sexual selection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Date: | 1 Aug [1871] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 46434) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7889 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … On a "remarkable" letter from Fritz Müller [see 7820 ] about mimicry, protection, and …
- … between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 (see n. 4, below). The …
- … just received a very remarkable letter from Fritz Müller (with butterflies’ wings gummed …
- … 1870 ( Hill 2007 , pp. 4–5). See letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 7. CD …
- … 2d ed. , p. 422 n. 34. See also letter to Fritz Müller, 2 August [1871] . See letter …
- … Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 and n. 19. Wallace had suggested that Chauncey Wright’s review of St George Jackson Mivart’s Genesis of species ( Wright 1871a ) might be reprinted as an appendix to the sixth edition of Origin (see letter …
To J. D. Hooker 3 October [1865]
Summary
Encloses letter [from A. R. Wallace?] about the Reader.
Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Oct [1865] |
| Classmark: | DAR 115: 276 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4907 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … about the Reader . Wants his opinion of a letter from Fritz Müller on climbing plants. …
- … 1865] and n. 7). CD refers to the letter from Fritz Müller of 31 August 1865 , which he …
- … Society , along with extracts from two other letters from Müller (see letter from Fritz …
- … a moderately long letter accompanied with beautiful drawings by Fritz Müller in Brazil on …
- … to Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] and n. 1). Eventually, CD sent part of that letter to …
- … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 1). For more on the nature of the correspondence between CD and Müller, see the letter from Fritz …
To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer 21 March [1881]
Summary
Wants plants with two sets of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [13041a] has made him wish to renew experiments and observations carried out 20 years ago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Turner Thiselton-Dyer |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1881] |
| Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 212–13) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13094 |
Matches: 5 hits
- … of anthers of different colours. Fritz Müller letter [ 13041a ] has made him wish to renew …
- … 21 My dear Dyer I have had a letter from Fritz Müller suggesting a novel & very curious …
- … the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 7 February 1881 . …
- … anthers or the crimson anthers (see letter to Fritz Müller, 20 March 1881 and n. 3). No …
- … Fritz Müller, 7 February 1881 ; Müller noted that pollen-eating insects were attracted to the brighter coloured pollen on short stamens, but that pollen from longer stamens was more likely to be transferred to the insect’s body and then to the stigma of other flowers. He hypothesised that one type of anthers attracted insects while the other type ensured cross-fertilisation. See letter …
To Robert McLachlan 12 March [1879]
Summary
Asks RMcL to correct the proper names in enclosed proof of a letter from Fritz Müller to be published in Nature. CD has no book with names of Trichoptera. [See 11930.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert McLachlan |
| Date: | 12 Mar [1879] |
| Classmark: | Superior Galleries (dealers) (28–31 January 1990) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11927A |
To Raphael Meldola 14 September 1877
Summary
Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 14 Sept 1877 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11140 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Is doubtful about the publication of Fritz Müller’s letter after so long an interval. …
- … publishing extracts of the letter from Fritz Müller, 14 June 1871 ( Correspondence vol. …
- … have some doubts whether Fritz Müller would like extracts from his letters being published …
- … Leptalis ( Fritz Müller 1876a) is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. See letter from …
To Raphael Meldola 15 May [1878]
Summary
Encloses Fritz Müller letter, which may be of interest [see 11463].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 15 May [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11510 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Encloses Fritz Müller letter, which may be of interest [see 11463 ]. …
- … CD enclosed the letter and enclosure (now missing) from Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878 . The …
- … Fritz Müller, 5 April 1878 and n. 2). Meldola published Müller’s enclosure in the Transactions of the Entomological Society of London ( F. Müller 1878 ). Cassia neglecta is a synonym of Senna neglecta . The beetles were later identified in an annotation by Meldola as belonging to the genus Spermophagus (a synonym of Amblycerus , seed beetles of the subfamily Bruchinae). Otto Zacharias . See letter …
To Raphael Meldola 11 January [1878]
Summary
Thinks there can be no objection to RM’s using a Fritz Müller letter [see 11319].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 11 Jan [1878] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11318 |
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: 11 hits
- … la Société Botanique de France (see letter to Fritz Müller, 23 August [1866] and n. 8). …
- … is established by the postscript. See letter from Fritz Müller, [2 November 1866] . Müller …
- … Bentham and Hooker 1862 –83; see letter to Fritz Müller, 23 August [1866] ). Müller had …
- … on this orchid genus, see the letter from Fritz Müller, 1 December 1866 . Müller had …
- … see letter to Fritz Müller, [before 10 December 1866] , and letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 …
- … one of those identified by Müller as dimorphic. See letter from Fritz Müller, [2 November …
- … Fritz Müller, 2 August 1866 ). CD had received bulbils of Oxalis sent by Müller in October 1866 (see letter …
- … Fritz Müller , 2 August 1866 and [2 November 1866] ). Müller’s remarks on Oncidium were contained in a now missing part of his letter …
- … Fritz Müller, 1 and 3 October 1866 and nn. 2 and 6). In his German translation of Müller’s letter, …
- … Fritz Müller, [2 November 1866] and n. 11). Müller’s remarks on Gesneria were contained in a now missing part of his letter …
- … Fritz Müller, [2 November 1866] ). CD was working on the final chapter of Variation (see CD’s ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol. 14, Appendix II)). CD wrote a further paper ( ‘Illegitimate offspring of dimorphic and trimorphic plants’ ) and eventually a book on this subject ( Forms of flowers ). (Müller sent CD dried flowers of some of the plants he referred to in his letter ( …
From Fritz Müller 9 and 10 August 1881
Summary
Thanks CD for his letter of 21 June [13212].
Is sending seeds of Oxalis sepium, which came from a cross between a plant with long pistils and another with pistils intermediate in length. Perhaps some of the plants that come from them will have short pistils.
FM does not know who told Dr B [Wilhelm Breitenbach] that he had lost a whole library in the flood. In fact, he lost only a few books that he had left behind thinking they were safe where they were.
Has taken the opportunity of a recent cold spell to test CD’s views on nyctitropism [night movements] in plants. Describes Pandanus and Oxalis sepium.
Has just received CD’s letter of 4 July and he is glad that his observations on the effects of rain on plants interested CD.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 and 10 Aug 1881 |
| Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 416–17; Nature, 15 September 1881, p. 459 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13284A |
Matches: 13 hits
- … have been found. On Schizolobium , see letter to Fritz Müller, 4 July 1881 and n. 4. …
- … According to Alfred Möller , all Fritz Müller’s letters to CD were written in English (see …
- … mention of Phyllanthus species, see letter from Fritz Müller, 31 May 1881 . CD’s notes on …
- … According to Alfred Möller , all Fritz Müller’s letters to CD were written in English (see …
- … the English of the printed source. See letter to Fritz Müller, 21 June 1881 ; CD mentioned …
- … crowns of sword-shaped leaves. See letter to Fritz Müller, 4 July 1881 ; CD had described …
- … vol. 13, letter from Fritz Müller, 5 November 1865 ). See letter to Fritz Müller, 21 June …
- … letters were later sent by Francis Darwin to Möller, who translated them into German for his Fritz Müller: …
- … Fritz Müller: Werke, Briefe und Leben ( Möller ed. 1915–21 ). Möller also found final drafts of some Müller letters …
- … Müller had sent CD dried flowers of an unidentified species of Coccocypselum in 1867 (see Correspondence vol. 15, letter from Fritz …
- … Fritz Müller papers and included these in their original English form ( ibid. 2: 72 n). Where the original English versions are missing, the published version, usually appearing in German translation, has been used. This letter …
- … Fritz Müller papers and included these in their original English form ( ibid. 2: 72 n). Where the original English versions are missing, the published version, usually appearing in German translation, has been used. This letter …
- … letter and Ph. compressus), Cissampelos Pareira. Schizolobium I have not yet investigated, as the plant in my garden was cut back a few weeks ago because it grew too thickly. However, I will soon be able to examine this plant as well. Believe me, dear Sir, I am with the deepest respect, always very truly yours | Fritz Müller. …
To Nature 21 November [1877]
Summary
Sends letter from Fritz Müller [11191] containing observations on plants and insects of South Brazil, with prefatory comments.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 21 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 29 November 1877, p. 78 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11245 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Sends letter from Fritz Müller [ 11191 ] containing observations on plants and insects of …
- … letter in Nature . CD enclosed the letter from Fritz Müller, 19 October 1877 . See letter …
- … Nicaragua ( Belt 1874a , p. 218). See letter from Fritz Müller, 19 October 1877 and n. 5. …
- … The enclosed letter from that excellent observer, Fritz Müller, contains some …
To Nature [before 15 September 1881]
Summary
Quotes from a Fritz Müller letter of 9 Aug supporting CD’s views that leaves position themselves at night so as to minimise heat loss by radiation. It is a new fact to CD that leaves take different positions at different seasons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | [before 15 Sept 1881] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 15 September 1881, p. 459 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13338 |
To Nature 22 February [1881]
Summary
Summarises the "remarkable facts about the movements of plants" in Fritz Müller’s letter of January [12996]. CD comments that Müller’s observations support the conclusion that he and Francis Darwin arrived at – that leaves go to sleep to escape the full effects of radiation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Nature |
| Date: | 22 Feb [1881] |
| Classmark: | Nature, 3 March 1881, p. 409 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13061 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … about the movements of plants" in Fritz Müller’s letter of January [ 12996 ]. CD comments …
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 9 January 1881 . …
- … the family of grasses. See letter from Fritz Müller, 9 January 1881 and n. 7. Phyllanthus …
- … Movements of Plants Fritz Müller, in a letter from St. Catharina, Brazil, dated January 9, …
- … Fritz Müller, 9 January 1881 ; Müller included a diagram of the leaf movement in his letter. …
- … Müller had sent seeds of Cassia neglecta (a synonym of Senna neglecta ) in 1878 (see Correspondence vol. 26, letter to Fritz …
- … Müller, 16 May 1878 ). CD had discussed movement of both cotyledons and leaves of this species in Movement in plants , p. 117. See letter from Fritz …
- … Fritz Müller, 9 January 1881 . See Movement in plants , p. 284. Francis Darwin had assisted CD with research on plant movement. By ‘effect of radiation’, CD meant the radiation or loss of heat from the plant surface. See letter …
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: 15 hits
- … by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . …
- … Müller 1868a , pp. 404–5; see also letter to Fritz Müller, 10 August [1865] and n. 5). …
- … of the Linnean Society ( Botany ) 9 (1866): 344–9 ( see Müller 1865b and letter from Fritz …
- … are in the missing section of the letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 (see letter …
- … to be well-preserved. Müller admitted in his reply ( letter from Fritz Müller to Alexander …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 1, and letter …
- … from Fritz Müller, 10 October 1865 ). Since Müller would not have received CD’s letter of …
- … Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . CD had not yet received Müller’s second letter …
- … Fritz Müller, 17 October [1865] ). The information on Haplolophium and Strychnos is contained in the section of the 12 August 1865 letter …
- … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and n. 1; see also the letter from Fritz …
- … Müller 1864 , he had suggested to Müller that Anelasma might represent a connecting link between Rhizocephala and other cirripedes (see letter to Fritz …
- … from Müller on this topic to Climbing plants 2d ed. , p. 36 n. (see letter from Fritz …
- … Müller 1864 ) was translated into English, some additional material was added, including Müller’s hypothesis on the relation of branched filaments to cement ducts and root-like tubes (see enclosure to letter from Fritz …
- … Müller, 12 August 1865 and n. 11). Müller included drawings of some of the climbing plants he described in his letters to CD (see letter to Fritz …
- … Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] and nn. 16–18). CD’s observations on twiners ascending the trunks of trees are in ‘Climbing plants’ , pp. 21–2 (see letter from Fritz …
To Fritz Müller 17 August 1868
Summary
FM’s additions for English edition [1869] of Für Darwin.
Dimorphic plants.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Date: | 17 Aug 1868 |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 25) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6320 |
Matches: 7 hits
- … Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)). See letter from Fritz Müller, 22 April 1868 . For CD’s …
- … see Correspondence vol. 14, letter from Fritz Müller, [2 November 1866] , n. 16). …
- … See letter from Fritz Müller, 17 June 1868 . William Sweetland Dallas was translating …
- … from Fritz Müller, 17 June 1868 . See letter from Fritz Müller, 17 June 1868 and n. 10. …
- … californica. See letter from Fritz Müller, 17 June 1868 and n. 6. See letter …
- … Fritz Müller, 31 October 1868 ). Müller discussed P. aquatica in a missing portion of an 1866 letter ( …
- … Fritz Müller, 17 June 1868 . CD refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker . The specimens have not been identified. CD refers to Pontederia aquatica (now Eichhornia azurea , the anchored water hyacinth; see letter …
To Raphael Meldola 25 May 1878
Summary
Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Raphael Meldola |
| Date: | 25 May 1878 |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11529 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter. …
- … you are going to draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letters Yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin …
- … Fritz Müller had sent CD some seeds that turned out to contain beetles. CD had sent the beetles to Meldola; Meldola had asked to see the seeds as well. See letter …
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: 4 hits
- … the letter from Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] . See also letter …
- … vol. 13, Appendix I. See also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. For a …
- … from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 . For the missing portion of the letter, see …
- … See also letter from Fritz Müller, 12 August 1865 , n. 1. ‘Climbing plants’ . See letter …
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 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … regarding Brazilian plants ( letter from Fritz Müller, 4 March 1867 ). Hooker had planned …
- … between this letter and the letter from Fritz Müller, 4 March 1867 . CD told Müller in his …
- … See also Correspondence vol. 14, letter from Fritz Müller, 1 December 1866 , and …
- … 15 April [1867] and n. 8. See letter from Fritz Müller, 4 March 1867 . In his letter to …
- … Fritz Müller, [12 and 31 August, and 10 October 1865] ); Müller mentioned that the copies had not arrived in his letter …
- … letters from Fritz Müller , 1 January 1867 and 2 February 1867 . In his letter of 4 …
- … had asked Müller whether this Oncidium was endemic to Brazil (see ibid. , letter to Fritz …
- … Fritz Müller, 4 March 1867 . Müller had written that Oncidium flexuosum was completely infertile with its own pollen and fertile with the pollen of any other plant of the same species in his letter …
Document type
| letter | (399) |
| bibliography | (1) |
| people | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (218) |
| Müller, Fritz | (50) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (18) |
| Müller, Hermann | (17) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (16) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (177) |
| Müller, Fritz | (56) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (23) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (17) |
| Thiselton-Dyer, W. T. | (12) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (395) |
| Müller, Fritz | (106) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (41) |
| Meldola, Raphael | (33) |
| Müller, Hermann | (24) |
