From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Mar 1870
Source of text:
DAR 76: B36
Summary:
His observations on mimicry in butterflies
and self-sterility in plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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His observations on mimicry in butterflies
and self-sterility in plants.
Discussion of mimicry and sexual selection among butterflies, occasioned by reading Descent.
Has no objection to CD’s alluding to FM’s idea that sexual selection has come into play in mimetic butterflies.
Reports observations on other butterflies and on termites.
Thanks CD for new [2d] edition of Orchids.
Mentions some observations on dimorphic plants.
Reports on a third species of Pontederia [see Forms of flowers, p. 185].
Describes some unusual grasses.
Reports rumours from southern Brazil concerning the existence of a gigantic subterranean animal.