From Hermann Müller 23 October 1867

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5657,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 3 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5657

Summary

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.

Letter details

Record number: DCP-LETT-5657
From: Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
To: Charles Robert Darwin
Date: 23 Oct 1867
Sent from: Lippstadt
Source of text: DAR 171: 291
Physical description: 3pp

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 15.