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DCP-LETT-4972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
11 Jan 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 5)
Summary:

Has read FM’s paper on sponges ["Über Darwinella aurea", Arch. Miskrosk. Anat. 1 (1865): 344–53] with interest.

Has also read FM’s work on the metamorphoses of Peneus [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 3d ser. 14 (1864): 104–15], an interesting and important embryological discovery.

CD regards Louis Agassiz’s opinions as valueless.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4982

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Jan 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 61)
Summary:

Welcomes ARW’s paper on pigeons ["On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago", Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400].

Influence of monkeys on distribution of pigeons and parrots.

Asks ARW to explain a passage in his paper on Malayan Papilionidae [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71] on how dimorphic forms are produced. CD knows of varieties "that will not blend or intermix", but which produce offspring quite like either parent.

ARW’s remarks on geographical distribution in Celebes "will give a cold shudder to the immutable naturalists".

Presses ARW to work on his travel journal.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4989

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[6 Feb 1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 64)
Summary:

ARW’s simple explanation of dimorphic forms is satisfactory.

On "non-blending" of certain varieties, CD thinks ARW has not understood him. He does not refer to fertility. He crossed two differently coloured varieties of peas and "got both varieties perfect, but none intermediate". Something like this must occur in ARW’s butterflies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5050

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
9 and 15 Apr 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 6)
Summary:

Structure of Scaevola and its fertilisation with insect aid.

Fertilisation of Aristolochia.

FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146].

Is preparing new edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5097

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
23 May 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 7)
Summary:

Thanks for information on orchids

and facts on coastal flora and fauna.

Asks FM to look out for dimorphic aquatic and marsh plants.

Has read pamphlets "in our favour" by Carl v. Nägeli and Oscar Schmidt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 July [1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f.70)
Summary:

CD considers "the survival of the fittest" as alternative term to "Natural Selection". Reflections upon misunderstanding and his own ambiguity.

Health improved; can now work "some hours daily".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
23 Aug [1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 8)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on orchids.

FM’s paper on climbing plants [see 5146]; CD has received proofs.

Carl Claus’s pamphlet on copepods [Die Copepodenfauna von Nizza (1866)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5216

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
25 Sept [1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 9)
Summary:

Fertilisation in orchids: Friedrich Hildebrand’s paper.

Self-sterility.

Climbing plants.

Agassiz’s attempts to eliminate all Darwinian views.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
[before 10 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 10)
Summary:

Hildebrand’s paper on trimorphism in Oxalis ["Über den Trimorphismus in der Gattung Oxalis", Monatsber. K. Preuss. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (1866): 352–74].

Problems of explaining brightly coloured, attractive seeds.

Haeckel has visited Down.

FM’s climbing plants paper is printed [J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
31 Dec 1866 and 1 Jan 1867
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 11)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.

Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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