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DCP-LETT-8988

From:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 28–9
Summary:

A hasty answer to CD’s letter [8987] of 25 July. Mentions Dr Osler’s observations on behaviour of colourless blood corpuscles in solutions of sodium and potassium salts of same strength.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8989

From:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 30–2
Summary:

Reports in detail on her experiments with Drosera. Finds she was mistaken in thinking D. filiformis captured only small insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8990

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 221
Summary:

His preliminary results with formic acid show that it inhibits germination of several kinds of seed. It also inhibits growing of mildew, which he speculates may facilitate germination.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8991

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
31 July [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 267
Summary:

Has three common garden plants of which he needs to know correct names; will send specimens as soon as he hears JDH is back.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8992

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 July [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 83
Summary:

JVC’s travel plans in England. Hopes to visit CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8993

From:
Frank Chance
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July – 7 Aug 1873
Source of text:
DAR 53.1: 2–5
Summary:

Gives some observations on ponies’ becoming white in winter;

on skin pigmentation and the effects of heat;

on the bristling of the hair in man.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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RS-MM-000975

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
4 July 1873
Source of text:
MM/15/67, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

JHC364

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 July 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH reports that he & [Thomas Henry] Huxley are enjoying their time in France. He asks Thiselton-Dyer how his class is going [Thiselton-Dyer took over Huxley's summer course in elementary biology in 1873 as Huxley was away for his health]. JDH & Huxley have been studying a volcanic phenomenon [volcanic plug] & subsequent glacial action. JDH finds the scenery beautiful. Although the flora is diverse he is not collecting plants. Asks Thiselton-Dyer to tell Daniel Oliver he prefers Le Puy to Nuremberg & to pass on any messages from Oliver or [John] Smith.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-73-07-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
July 1873
Source of text:
Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-73-07-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Francis
Date:
10 July 1873
Source of text:
D73/8945, unit 1022, 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-73-07-11

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 July 1873
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-73-07-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
14 July 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-73-07-14b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
14 July 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 98-99
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-73-07-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 July 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 100-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-73-07-15a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 July 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1871-81, ff. 102-3; 1858-70, ff. 42, 30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July [1873]
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 77 [enclosure]
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 316]
Summary:

Mentions Dr Krefft and discusses a caterpillar in Sydney whose cocoon imitated the leaf to which it was attached.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5001

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
14 July 1873
Source of text:
Anon. (1873). The challenge: its acceptance, trial, and postponement. The Zetetic and Anti-Theorist : 2 : 41-47 [pp. 41-42]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5002

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Birley ("Parallax") Rowbotham
Date:
25 July 1873
Source of text:
Anon. (1873). The challenge: its acceptance, trial, and postponement. The Zetetic and Anti-Theorist : 2 : 41-47 [p. 42]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5003

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Birley ("Parallax") Rowbotham
Date:
26 July 1873
Source of text:
Anon. (1873). The challenge: its acceptance, trial, and postponement. The Zetetic and Anti-Theorist : 2 : 41-47 [p. 42]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5004

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Samuel Birley ("Parallax") Rowbotham
Date:
27 July 1873
Source of text:
Anon. (1873). The challenge: its acceptance, trial, and postponement. The Zetetic and Anti-Theorist : 2 : 41-47 [p. 42]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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