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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1 December 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 49
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 25)
Summary:
William asks what to do about a complication in settling Aunt Catherine’s estate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 120
Summary:
Asks CD to send W. R. Grove titles and place of publication of the Müller [Für Darwin (1864)] and Walsh (Walsh 1864–5) papers he referred to in his address [BAAS lecture at Nottingham, see 5135].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.322)
Summary:
Thanks CL for copy of his "grand book" [Principles of geology, 10th ed., vol. 1 (1867)]. Congratulates him on additions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell
Date:
1 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.323)
Summary:
Mentions visit to E. A. Darwin.
Encloses note for Mr Corbet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Hanbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 93
Summary:
Wishes to consult Fritz Müller on pharmacological matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 387)
Summary:
Thanks JBEB for Papaver seeds. Has long wished to see some of the closely allied subspecies and hopes to make some crossing experiments with them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 99–102.
Summary:
Gives observations on orchid ovules ripening long after blooming.
Infertility with own pollen sometimes does and sometimes does not indicate dimorphism; gives observations on Ximenia, Eschscholtzia and Oncidium flexuosum.
Describes some striking seeds eaten by birds,
and some new dimorphic species.
Variation in Thillia.
Confirms CD’s suspicion that the lancet-fish [Amphioxus] lives in competition with invertebrates: it shares its habitat with a similar-looking Ophelia, which is quite unlike other annelids, just as the lancet-fish is unlike other fishes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.257
Summary:
Sends proof sheet on the mathematics of representation. Intends to print in full JH's letter to Mrs. Drummond. Has not yet received information regarding the measuring bars as T. A. Larcom is busy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Göttingen
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 December 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.15, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Godfrey Howitt and others
To:
Henry Manners-Sutton
Date:
December 1866
Source of text:
M67/17, unit 21, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 December 1866
Source of text:
- Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/256
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 12
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 188]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
Correspondent
- Bornet, Édouard1
- Caldwell, Anne1
- Darwin, C. R.7
- Darwin, Emma1
- Darwin, H. E.1
- Darwin, W. E.1
- Godfrey Howitt and others1
- Hanbury, Daniel1
- Herschel, John1
- Hooker, J. D.1
- Huxley, Thomas Henry1
- Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Göttingen1
- Lyell, Charles1
- Manners-Sutton, Henry1
- Marsh, Anne1
- Marsh-Caldwell, Anne1
- McLennan, John F.1
- Mueller, Ferdinand von1
- Müller, Fritz1
- Wallace, Alfred Russel1
- FEWER