From:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Apr 1880
Source of text:
DAR 171: 314
Summary:
Fritz Müller’s daughter has committed suicide.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Fritz Müller’s daughter has committed suicide.
HM’s son will visit CD when he comes to London.
Is glad CD approves of his judgment of G. Bonnier’s paper on nectaries [Gaston Bonnier, "Les nectaires", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 8 (1879): 5–212].
Movement in plants has shown him CD’s research method: 1. Find a fundamental idea of great generality (circumnutation); 2. Pursue it everywhere with observations and experiment; 3. Conduct special observations which undo any doubt of generality.
Fritz Müller suffered moderate damage in Brazilian flood.
Continued praise for the universal importance for botany of Movement in plants.