From Fritz Müller 3 April 1868
Summary
Thanks CD for sending him copy of Variation.
Describes results of his brother’s [August Müller] experiments on effect of climate on maize.
Like ancestors of horses, young tapir is also striped.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 3 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 137–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6089A |
From Fritz Müller 22 April 1868
Summary
His opinion of Pangenesis.
On relative proportion of sexes in marine animals [sthg missing!?] Crustacea.
Sexual differences.
Music of Cicadae.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 86: A85–6; Möller 1915–21, 2: 140; Darwin Library–CUL (tipped into CD’s copy of F. Müller 1864a) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6140 |
From Fritz Müller 17 June 1868
Summary
Again thanks CD for trouble in arranging for translation of Für Darwin.
Sends addition answering critics of his idea of insect metamorphosis [see Möller ed. 1915–21, 1: 259].
Agrees with Charles Lyell’s suggested English title "Facts and arguments in favor of Darwin", although perhaps more accurate to call it "Darwinism tested by Carcinology" or "Carcinology as bearing on the origin of species".
Says any profit should go to CD for his trouble and expense with the translation.
Thanks for seeds of Eschscholtzia.
Gives observations on number of climbing plants, including Dilleniacea, Marantacea, Catasetum.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 17 June 1868 |
Classmark: | Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 141–3; W. S. Dallas trans. 1869, pp. 119–21 n. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6248A |
From Fritz Müller 9 September 1868
Summary
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Sept 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6359 |
From Fritz Müller 31 October 1868
Summary
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 142: 98, 103 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6439 |
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