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 |
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Darwin, C. R. | |
Müller, Albert | (3) |