Has learned that Fritz Müller is HM’s brother.
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Has learned that Fritz Müller is HM’s brother.
Made aware by Asa Gray of error with respect to Cypripedium. Does not doubt it is self-fertilised.
Müller’s observations on orchids excellent.
Offers to undertake publication of English translation of Fritz Müller’s Für Darwin. W. S. Dallas will translate it.
Pleased HM says good words for Pangenesis.
The Origin converted him from a Linnean interpretation of flowers and mosses.
Glad that CD appreciates his continuing work on mosses, in support of natural selection.
Plans to repeat CD’s orchid experiments.
Sends interpretation of the floral anatomy of Lopezia miniata.
Thanks for "Climbing plants" offprint and for references on fertilisation of flowers.
Considering the bounty of work already done, he is looking for something original to do.
Subularia does not grow in Westphalia.
Thanks for German version of Origin [1867].
Dipterous insects are adapted to eating pollen rather than only to sucking nectar. He describes such adaptations in two dipteran species.
Thanks CD for his photograph.
Intends to start experimenting with mosses to determine which differences in structure are effected by altered conditions of life.
HM is certain his brother Fritz would like to see Für Darwin translated into English by Dallas. He will make arrangements with the German publisher.
Two friends are writing Darwinian works: Adolf Speyer on phylogeny of Lepidoptera
and August Röse on genealogy of mosses.
Has heard from W. Engelmann of Leipzig; he is willing to let CD have the woodcuts to Fritz Müller’s work [Für Darwin (1864)] for 22 thalers.
Thanks CD for the English edition of his brother’s book [Fritz Müller, Facts and arguments for Darwin (1869)]
and for CD’s memoir on orchids ["Fertilization of orchids", Collected papers 2: 138–56].
Would like Frederick Smith of the British Museum to determine whether or not some unidentified Westphalian bees are new species.