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DCP-LETT-11902

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Karl Höchberg
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.560)
Summary:

Discusses the value of a vegetable diet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11903

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 [Feb 1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 162)
Summary:

Thanks for book [Duchartre, Éléments de botanique].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11904

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl August Lindvall
Date:
25 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (MS C. A. Lindvall)
Summary:

CAL’s letter [see 11885] would not be printed by the Geological Society as it is too speculative and has no new information.

Encloses his photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11904F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Jean Pozzi
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Nicholas Bourdet (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for sending him work on the skull.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11905

From:
Edward Perceval Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 176
Summary:

Is applying for the Chair of Botany at Edinburgh and asks CD for a testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11905F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edmund Kell Blyth
Date:
26 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Maggs Brothers (dealers) (catalogue 1432, 2009)
Summary:

Details of publications by G. H. Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11906

From:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 114
Summary:

Sends results of the first year’s experiments with the Russian wheat varieties sent by CD [see 11483].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11907

From:
Frederick King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 169: 19
Summary:

A founding member of the Royal Agricultural Society sends information on the specificity of sheep varieties to soil types.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11908

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Perceval Wright
Date:
28 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00525)
Summary:

Has already written a testimonial for [?William Ramsay] McNab as Professor of Botany. Hence what he can write for EPW will not be of much use.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11909

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edinburgh University
Date:
28 Feb 1879
Source of text:
Kenneth W. Rendell (dealer) (July 1994)
Summary:

CD has read several papers by E. Perceval Wright and has a high opinion of his abilities and great zeal for natural science.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11910

From:
Alexander Fedorovich Batalin (Александр Федорович Баталин)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 209.14: 179, 180
Summary:

Sleep movements in Oxalis acetosella.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Woodward
Date:
13 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
McGill University Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Blacker-Wood Manuscript Collection, Woodward Collection of Autographs v. 3)
Summary:

Has signed a paper [unspecified];

thanks HW for his interesting letter and kind expressions about himself and his son.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000834

From:
Alexander Bruce, 2nd Earl of Kincardine
To:
Robert Moray
Date:
20 February 1879
Source of text:
MM/14/45, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC672

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 February 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 49, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-79-02-11

From:
the South Kensington Museum
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 February 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M200a.46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-02-12

From:
John Thurston
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 February 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.`MS found with a specimen of Cyathea propinqua (MEL 2292789)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-02-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Odoardo Beccari
Date:
16 February 1879
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-79-02-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl Mayer
Date:
20 February 1879
Source of text:
General-Landesarchiv, Karlsruhe, 56/3312
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-79-02-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Engelmann
Date:
22 February 1879
Source of text:
George Engelmann papers, Missouri Botanical Garden, St Louis
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-79-02-28

From:
Charles Fawcett
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 February 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M7, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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