From Hermann Müller 25 September 1878
Lippstadt,
Sept 25, 1878
My dear Sir,
I must write a few lines to thank you for your kind letter which has very much rejoiced myself, and for your efforts to effect the translation of my book: “Die Befruchtung etc.”1
The last five years I have been occupied collecting observations on Alpine flowers and their fertilisation by insects. But now unfortunately our vacancies have been altered in such a manner (beginning not before the midst of August) that I must renounce on further successful excursions into the Alps.2 My this year excursion, from August 14 to Sept. 12 has had but very poor results.
I have therefore resolved now to work up the observations hitherto collected and then to publish my work on Alpine flowers and their fertilisation by insects.3
Having finished this work I will return to biological observations of Insects and then I will take all possible pains in order to repeat and complete your admirable observations on the regular travels of humble bees which you have communicated with me some years ago.4
With the most sincere respect | Yours | very faithfully | Hermann Müller.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Müller, Hermann. 1873. Die Befruchtung der Blumen durch Insekten und die gegenseitigen Anpassungen beider. Ein Beitrag zur Erkenntniss des ursächlichen Zusammenhanges in der organischen Natur. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann.
Müller, Hermann. 1881a. Alpenblumen, ihre Befruchtung durch Insekten: und ihre Anpassungen an dieselben. Leipzig: W. Engelmann.
Müller, Hermann. 1883a. The fertilisation of flowers. Translated and edited by D’Arcy W. Thompson. London: Macmillan and Co.
Summary
Thanks CD for his efforts to get HM’s book, Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873], translated into English. [See Fertilisation of flowers, translated by D’Arcy W. Thompson, preface by C. Darwin (1883).]
Will soon return to his observations on insects in general and bees in particular.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11710
- From
- Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Lippstadt
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 311
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11710,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11710.xml
