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DCP-LETT-12072

From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 156–7
Summary:

Thanks CD for another letter [of his father’s].

Cannot call to mind the story about the robber [see Erasmus Darwin, pp. 64–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12073

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
31 May [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 83
Summary:

Sends a letter [missing] on the chance that GHD might give the writer information about tides.

Rejoices at GHD’s friendship with Sir W. Thomson and grand vein of research he has struck on.

First draft of life of Dr [Erasmus] D[arwin] is nearly finished.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12074

From:
George Sketchley Ffinden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
Bromley Historic Collections, Bromley Central Library (P/123/3/4)
Summary:

The official parish tithe map shows that a greater error than at first thought was made in measuring Miss Wedgwood’s land. She was overpaid £15 10s.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12074A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albin Gaertner
Date:
31 May 1879
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 4312/2)
Summary:

Thanks FAG for "the curious case of inheritance" [see 12064].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12074B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 29 May 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 13
Summary:

Try to find and read [a German] account of the fir-trees affected by some fungus which produces upright shoots. CD wants to know whether the case is same as what he has observed in the silver fir. Includes diagram.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9223F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Benjamin Ward Richardson
Date:
[before 30 May 1879]
Source of text:
B. W. Richardson [1882] , p. 144
Summary:

Convinced from the experience of his father and grandfather that no cause has led to so much suffering and inherited ill-health as the consumption of alcohol.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001026

From:
James Challis
To:
C Taylor
Date:
6 May 1879
Source of text:
MM/16/51, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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FVM-79-05-06a

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 May 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-05-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
12 May 1879
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-05-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Bryan O'Loghlen
Date:
18 May 1879
Source of text:
P79/4536, unit 153, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-05-23

From:
Charles Cox
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 May 1879
Source of text:
National Archives, London, CO 447/34, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 1879, vol. II, Public Offices & Miscellaneous, Colonial Office & Chancery, 8797/79, f. 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-05-24

From:
Queen Victoria
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 May 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M202, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.A draft form letter of this Royal Warrant, authorised by George, Duke of Cambridge and Charles Cox, Grand Master and Chancellor of the Order, is held at Public Record Office, London, CO 447/33, Order of St. Michael and St. George, 1879, vol. I, Despatches, warrants &c
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-05-24a

From:
Queen Victoria
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 May 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M202a, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-05-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
27 May 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 229-30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-05-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
28 May 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Brazil, Cultural Products Etc., 1852-1908, Miscellaneous Reports 16.5 (MR/759), f. 230
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP1586

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Samuel] [Butler]
Date:
9 May 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP6/5/5(40)
Summary:

With thanks for and criticism of Butler's books Life and Habit (1878) and Evolution Old and New (1879).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2396

From:
Edward Derwent Atkinson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 May 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 20-21
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2397

From:
John Cogleton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 May 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 22-23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2398

From:
Samuel Hubbard Scudder
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
15 May 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 24-25
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2579

From:
James Burns
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 May 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 183-184
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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