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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
30 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 20)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Feb 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 21)
Summary:

Is working on sexual selection and is interested in any anomalous sex ratios in lower animals and any sex-related characters.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
16 Mar [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 22)
Summary:

CD arranging for a translation of FM’s Für Darwin by W. S. Dallas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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.

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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.

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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Apr 1868
Source of text:
DAR 86: A85–6; Möller 1915–21, 2: 140; Darwin Library–CUL (tipped into CD’s copy of F. Müller 1864a)
Summary:

His opinion of Pangenesis.

On relative proportion of sexes in marine animals [sthg missing!?] Crustacea.

Sexual differences.

Music of Cicadae.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
3 June 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 24)
Summary:

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].

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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 June 1868
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21 , 2: 141–3; W. S. Dallas trans. 1869 , pp. 119–21 n.
Summary:

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.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
17 Aug 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 25)
Summary:

FM’s additions for English edition [1869] of Für Darwin.

Dimorphic plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 82: A92, Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 146–7.
Summary:

Will repeat CD’s experiments on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.

Auditory organs of Orthoptera; stridulation in lamellicorn beetles.

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From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1868
Source of text:
DAR 142: 98, 103
Summary:

Writes on various observations and discoveries on dimorphic and trimorphic plants.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
28 Nov 1868
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 26)
Summary:

Delay in translating Für Darwin.

Comments on plan to repeat CD’s experiments on illegitimate offspring.

FM’s observations on stridulation.

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