THE FLOWER AND THE BEE 



returned to Blumenau and became travelling naturalist for 

 the province of Santa Catharina. From his new home he 

 rendered invaluable service to his fatherland by frequently 

 communicating the results of his scientific researches and im- 

 portant observations. After his brother Hermann's death he 

 wrote: "With Hermann I have during the last twenty years 

 exchanged one letter regularly each month, nor did either of 

 us wait for the answer to our last letter before writing again." 

 By this lively exchange of ideas, which related chiefly to their 

 investigations in natural history, each incited the other to 

 greater efforts. On the expulsion of the Emperor Dom Pedro, 

 Fritz was deprived of his office and pay without explanation, 

 and letters were often not delivered to his address. During a 

 battle near Blumenau the revolutionists robbed him of a part 

 of his property, imprisoned him for eight days, and he escaped 

 with his life only by a fortunate accident. He died in 1897; 

 his best-known work was Fur Darwin, or Facts for Darwin. 

 Two of his grandsons inherit his love for nature. 



The younger brother, Hermann, graduated from the gymna- 

 sium at Erfurt in 1847. During his spare time he found 

 youthful employment in studying the floral wealth in the 

 environs of that city. At the University of Halle, and later at 

 Berlin, geology became his favorite pursuit. Two journeys to 

 the Alps awakened in him an appreciation of the rich flora and 

 fauna of these mountains. In 1855 he became teacher in the 

 newly established Realschule in Lippstadt, and ten years later 

 he was appointed uppermaster, a position he retained until the 

 close of his life. His first book. The Fertilization of Flowers, 

 won the praise of Charles Darwin and has had a world-wide 

 usefulness as a work of reference on flower-pollination. It is 

 illustrated by many excellent woodcuts, the drawings for which 

 were made by Mueller himself. It contains descriptions of 



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