skip to content

Darwin Correspondence Project

Search Results

Darwin Correspondence Project
Search:
"Darwin C R" in search-correspondent disabled_by_default
Darwin, C. R. in correspondent disabled_by_default
Müller, Albert in correspondent disabled_by_default
4 Items
Sorted by:  
Page: 1

To Albert Müller   28 March [1866]

Summary

Writes on slave-making ants; cannot explain why fewer slaves are caught in England than in Switzerland.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albert Müller
Date:  28 Mar [1866]
Classmark:  Universitätsbibliothek Basel, Handschriften (Allgemeine Autographensammlung, D)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5040

From Albert Müller   28 March 1866

Summary

Oswald Heer [in Die Urwelt der Schweiz (1866)] agrees with CD that Swiss ants (Formica sanguinea) capture more slaves than do British ants. Does this contradict selection, since the British ants are exposed to harder conditions and a poorer fauna?

Author:  Albert Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 Mar 1866
Classmark:  DAR 171: 280
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5039

From Albert Müller   31 March 1866

Summary

Calls for more study of behaviour and less of classification to determine whether descent theory can bear the weight not [only] of reasoning but of fact. Hopes CD’s intended book [Variation] will help.

Author:  Albert Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1866
Classmark:  DAR 171: 281
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5043

From Albert Müller   20 May 1868

Summary

Wilson Armistead’s death cut short his work on galls, but Müller is continuing it.

In China only uni-coloured animals are sold for meat, the rest are killed in the litter.

Author:  Albert Müller
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 171: 282
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6191
Document type
letter (4)
Addressee
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R.disabled_by_default
Müller, Albertdisabled_by_default
Date
1866 (3)
1868 (1)