To Hermann Müller 26 October 1875
Summary
On HM’s Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 26 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 436 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10228 |
To Hermann Müller 7 August 1876
Summary
Comments on Fritz Müller’s article on Hedychium.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 7 Aug 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 437 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10572 |
To Hermann Müller 1 January [1878]
Summary
Thanks HM for his review [of Forms of flowers, Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 286].
Thinks HM’s previous article was very important [Kosmos 2 (1877–8): 128–40]. CD will "heartily rejoice" if HM has explained the steps by which Rhamnus and Valeriana have been rendered dioecious.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 1 Jan [1878] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 438 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11307 |
To Hermann Müller 20 September 1878
Summary
Writing on vegetable physiology.
Nothing in CD’s life has ever interested him more than the fertilisation of such plants as Primula and Lythrum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 20 Sept 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 439 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11698 |
To Hermann Müller 12 February [1879]
Summary
Has just heard that HM has been treated shamefully by his Government. What has happened?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 12 Feb [1879] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 440 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11876 |
To Hermann Müller 18 July 1880
Summary
Enjoyed HM’s castigation of Gaston Bonnier ["Gaston Bonniers angebliche Widerlegung der modernen Blumentheorie", Kosmos 7 (1880): 219–36].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 18 July 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 441 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12473 |
To Hermann Müller 27 November 1880
Summary
Has heard of flood from which Fritz Müller escaped. Has he lost books, microscope, apparatus? Offers £50 or £100.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 27 Nov 1880 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 442 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12866 |
To Hermann Müller 29 March [1867]
Summary
Has learned that Fritz Müller is HM’s brother.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 29 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 428 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5471 |
To Hermann Müller 16 August [1867]
Summary
Made aware by Asa Gray of error with respect to Cypripedium. Does not doubt it is self-fertilised.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 16 Aug [1867] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 429; Krause 1884, p. 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5608 |
To Hermann Müller [9 October 1867]
Summary
Müller’s observations on orchids excellent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | [9 Oct 1867] |
Classmark: | Krause 1884, p. 18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5620F |
To Hermann Müller 23 February [1868]
Summary
Offers to undertake publication of English translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin. W. S. Dallas will translate it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 23 Feb [1868] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 430 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5919 |
To Hermann Müller 9 October 1868
Summary
Pleased HM says good words for Pangenesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 9 Oct 1868 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 431 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6415 |
To Hermann Müller 14 March 1870
Summary
Interested that HM is studying structure of insects in relation to flowers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 14 Mar 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 432; Krause 1884, pp. 19–20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7131 |
To Hermann Müller [before 5 May 1872]
Summary
Comments on HM’s paper ["Anwendung der Darwin’schen Lehre auf Bienen", Verh. Naturhist. Ver. preuss. Rheinland 29 (1872): 1–96];
sexual selection in bees.
Encloses account on habits of Bombus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | [before 5 May 1872] |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 433; DAR 194: 1; Krause ed. 1885–6, 2: 84–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8312 |
To Hermann Müller 5 May 1873
Summary
Comments on HM’s book [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)]. Particularly glad to read historical sketch and discussion of work of C. K. Sprengel.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 5 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 434 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8901 |
To Hermann Müller 30 May 1873
Summary
Further comments on HM’s [Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Date: | 30 May 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 146: 435; Krause 1884, p. 27 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8929 |
From Hermann Müller 7 August 1875
Summary
Thanks for Insectivorous plants.
Believes Lepidoptera are of greater importance as fertilisers in alpine regions than in lowlands.
The famous stone pits of Ohningen are for sale.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Aug 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10110 |
From Hermann Müller 23 October 1875
Summary
Is glad CD is working on cross- and self-fertilisation; reports recent works of botanists, notably Thomas Meehan’s ["Are insects any material aid to plants in fertilisation?", Philadelphia Press 13 Aug 1875], in which the importance of cross-fertilisation is denied.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Oct 1875 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10219 |
From Hermann Müller 16 February 1876
Summary
Observations on hive- and humble-bees. Perforating habits differ in different individuals of the same species.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Feb 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 46.2: C61–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10396 |
From Hermann Müller 4 September 1876
Summary
Bombus mastrucatus, an alpine bee, conforms to his observations that B. terrestris breaks open the flowers of Trifolium pratense. However, in the Alps, B. terrestris does not behave this way.
Gentiana species are adapted to lepidopteran cross-fertilisation.
Author: | Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Sept 1876 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 306 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10589 |
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