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DCP-LETT-4577

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 111
Summary:

Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6690

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 241
Summary:

Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].

Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6697

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 242
Summary:

Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;

discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1661

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
27 February 1867
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/57
Summary:

The return of some of his diplomas found by her; ARW's stereoscope; spiritualism; health.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP380

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 November 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/55
Summary:

Journey from Guayaquil, heart-attack, paralysis, general ill-health and poverty, inability to collect insects for ARW; botany, illness preventing his work on collection of mosses; bitterness at treatment by Sir William Hooker; newspaper reports on Darwin's Origin of Species, geographical distribution of species; ARW's Malayan collections; collectors in the Andes; tameness of native birds; marriage; possibility of returning to England.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP381

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 January 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/56
Summary:

ARW's new stereoscope; Latham's failure to publish Spruce's vocabularies, Latham's bankruptcy; return of the MS to Spruce; New Year greetings to ARW and his "charmante épouse".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP382

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 April 1867
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/58
Summary:

Spiritualism; ARW's memoir on Malay migration; inherited deafness in cats; Paris Exposition.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5526

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1? January 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC65 folio 359
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5601

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
24 January 1866
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5602

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
7 May 1867
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5603

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
25 September 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5604

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
6 October 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5605

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
16 January [1866]
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5606

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
1864-1873
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5607

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
28 March 1867
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5608

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
29 August 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5609

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
4 June 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5610

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
25 June 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5613

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
30 April 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5614

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
20? [April] [1865]
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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