Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.
Thanks for information on expression.
Dimorphic plants;
differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.
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Sends Variation and would like to hear what FM thinks of Pangenesis.
Thanks for information on expression.
Dimorphic plants;
differences in seed production in cross- and self-fertilised plants.
Is working on sexual selection and is interested in any anomalous sex ratios in lower animals and any sex-related characters.
CD arranging for a translation of FM’s Für Darwin by W. S. Dallas.
Movement in plants.
Dimorphism.
Would welcome FM’s opinion of Pangenesis.
Is glad FM approves of a translation of Für Darwin.
Hopes FM will think well of Pangenesis.
Sexual differences in insect auditory and stridulating organs.
Read FM’s paper on Balanus with great interest ["On Balanus armatus", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 4th ser. 1 (1868): 393–412].
FM’s additions for English edition [1869] of Für Darwin.
Dimorphic plants.
Delay in translating Für Darwin.
Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.
FM’s observations on stridulation.
Thanks CD for sending him copy of Variation.
Describes results of his brother’s [August Müller] experiments on effect of climate on maize.
Like ancestors of horses, young tapir is also striped.
His opinion of Pangenesis.
On relative proportion of sexes in marine animals [sthg missing!?] Crustacea.
Sexual differences.
Music of Cicadae.
Again thanks CD for trouble in arranging for translation of Für Darwin.
Sends addition answering critics of his idea of insect metamorphosis [see Möller ed. 1915–21, 1: 259].
Agrees with Charles Lyell’s suggested English title "Facts and arguments in favor of Darwin", although perhaps more accurate to call it "Darwinism tested by Carcinology" or "Carcinology as bearing on the origin of species".
Says any profit should go to CD for his trouble and expense with the translation.
Thanks for seeds of Eschscholtzia.
Gives observations on number of climbing plants, including Dilleniacea, Marantacea, Catasetum.
Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.
Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.
Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.