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FVM-59-01-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
27 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/666, unit 843, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-59-01-28a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Powlett
Date:
28 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/165, unit 25, VPRS 6605 inward correspondence, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-59-01-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
29 January 1859
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 187
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FVM-59-01-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Ligar
Date:
31 January 1859
Source of text:
59/608 in 70/13610, unit 470, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-M59-01-31

From:
George Francis
To:
Francis Dutton
Date:
31 January 1859
Source of text:
GRG 35/1, no. 155/1859, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
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WCP1841

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
25 January [1859]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 9-12
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 134-135]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 220-222]
Summary:

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4749

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
28 January 1859
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1859). [Extracts from a letter from Alfred R. Wallace to Samuel Stevens dated 28 Jan. 1859, Batchian; communicated by Stevens to the ESL meeting of 6 June 1859]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London : 1858-1859 : 70
Summary:

An account of ARW’s visceral reaction to capturing a new Ornithoptera, “the finest butterfly in the world”, and explains that he is remaining at Batchian, Moluccas with the intention of collecting additional Paradisea specimens.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5313

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 100: 131-2
Summary:

Hooker is “relieved and pleased” by the letters from ARW that Darwin had forwarded regarding ARW’s reaction to the joint reading of their papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. He discusses his progress on his Australian article. [Hooker, J. D. 1859. On The Flora of Australia: Its Origin, Affinities, and Distribution. In: Botany of the Antarctic Expedition. Part 3: Flora of Tasmania, vol. 1. London: Lovell Reeve.] He discusses potential candidates for the Royal Society’s new Foreign Fellow.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5329

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
23 January 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 115: 3
Summary:

Darwin encloses letters from ARW, and expresses admiration for the spirit in which they were written. Darwin thanks Hooker and Lyell for their intervention in the joint reading of ARW and Darwin’s papers at the Linnean Society in 1858. Darwin makes enquiries about the geology of the Himalayas.

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WCP7106

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Stevens
Date:
[1859?]
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1860). Note on the sexual differences in the genus Lomaptera [communicated by Samuel Stevens to the ESL meeting of 6 Feb. 1860]. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London : 1858-1859 : 107
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