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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
3 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 23)
Summary:

Movement in plants.

Dimorphism.

Would welcome FM’s opinion of Pangenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Apr [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 60–1
Summary:

Asks for [John?] Smith’s exact count of seeds of the crossed and self-fertilised Victoria water-lily. Similar question on Euryale seed and seedlings.

JDH’s coming [BAAS] Presidential Address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Henry Doubleday
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 81: 78, DAR 82: A8
Summary:

Otto Staudinger’s catalogue shows prices of female Lepidoptera to be higher than those of males.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Gabriel-Madeleine-Camille (Camille) Dareste
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 162: 44
Summary:

Thanks for Variation.

CD must be happy about the tendency toward acceptance of his views, though it is regrettable that France is backward in this regard.

His own work goes slowly, but he still hopes his work on artificially produced monstrosities will help to answer the question of the origin of species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[3 Apr 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 45: 29, DAR 83: 156
Summary:

Discusses apes and their relationships to each other. Writes particularly of the gibbon, its structure and well-developed legs giving it the ability to walk without using its hands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21 , 2: 137–8
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1868
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 32)
Summary:

Discusses how they might enquire about any provisions in the laws of partnership concerning lunacy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project