From John Murray 27 November [1877]
Summary
Sends CD his share of profits on Descent and Forms of flowers.
Wants to reprint Cross and self-fertilisation because supply of copies is entirely exhausted.
Congratulates CD on his Cambridge honour [LL.D.].
| Author: | John Murray |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 27 Nov [1877] |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 495 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11255 |
From Fritz Müller [27 November 1877]
Summary
Sends proboscis of a Sphinx-moth that is 22 cms long.
Discusses eleven species of butterfly which visit Lantana, a plant which blooms only for three days and whose flowers are yellow on the first day, orange on the second, and purple on the third. Most species only visit the flowers when they are yellow.
Describes and draws the odiferous organs of a Sphinx-moth.
Describes a secondary sexual character of several species of Callidryas and other Pierinæ: the costal margin of the anterior wing is sharply serrated in the males, while it is smooth in the females.
| Author: | Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [27 Nov 1877] |
| Classmark: | Transactions of the Entomological Society of London (1878): (Proceedings) ii–iii |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11255F |
| letter | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Murray, John (b) | (1) |
| Müller, Fritz | (1) |
