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FVM-55-05-26a

From:
Augustus Gregory
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
MS Q429 outward letter copy book, p. 53, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-55-05-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Haines
Date:
30 May 1855
Source of text:
O55/6846, unit 203, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 856 Colonial Secretary's Office, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M55-05-12

From:
Wilhelm Sonder
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
12 May 1855
Source of text:
Archiv der Universität, Vienna
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M55-05-16

From:
Henry Gregory
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
16 May 1855
Source of text:
MS Q423 inward correspondence, Gregory papers, Dixson Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M55-05-26

From:
George Francis
To:
William Hooker
Date:
26 May 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' Correspondence, vol. 74, letter number 69
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP1292

From:
Mary Elizabeth Podger Wallace (née Webster)
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
14 May 1855
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/96/18
Summary:

One of a set of excerpts of letters providing in-depth descriptions John Wallace's life in the gold mining town of Columbia, California, building a system to bring water to gold mining operations in the town.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP612

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
May 1855
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/139
  • Wallace, A. R. (1855). Borneo. The Literary Gazette and Journal of the Belles Lettres, Science, and Art: 2023: 683-684
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 53-56]
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 178]
Summary:

Describing the locality and people; thoughts on differences between "civilised" and "savage".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP781

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 May 1855
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418279
Summary:

Thanks for Waterhouse's report on ARW's Singapore Curculionidae - ARW's collecting activities and plans of a visit to Celebes and his quest for the Orang-utan, etc.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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