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DCP-LETT-9697F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
August Wilhelm Malm
Date:
[25 Oct 1874]
Source of text:
Göteborgsposten , 14 November 1874, p. 1
Summary:

Thanks for a paper on the reproductive organs of fish.

Has always admired AWM’s work on the Pleuronectidae (Bidrag till kännedom af Pleuronektoidernas utveckling och byggnad (Contribution to knowledge of the development and structure of the Pleuronectidae); Malm 1867).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9698

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 166: 62
Summary:

Thanks CD for Descent, 2d ed.

Comments on German edition of CD’s collected works.

Sales of his Anthropogenie [1874] in various countries.

Anticlericalism and progress of Darwinism in Germany.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9699

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
27 Oct [1874]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders two bottles of chlorodyne and bottles and corks of various sizes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9700

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 97
Summary:

On German translation of Descent [3d German, 2d English ed.]. Lists some misprints in proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9701

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29] Oct [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 341
Summary:

Forwards a photograph he thought had been lost. Has noticed that the two sides of the face are often asymmetric in portrait busts and statues.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9702

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
30 Oct 1874
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 112–113)
Summary:

Will soon send remaining sheets [of Descent, 2d English ed.]. Fears JVC’s errata have come too late for printing.

His new work [Insectivorous plants] will make a rather big book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9703

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
30 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 143: 163
Summary:

Discusses expression on two halves of the face. Mentions photograph [of picture by Rubens].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9704

From:
Auguste-Henri (Auguste) Forel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 164: 154
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s favourable opinion of his book [Les fourmis de la Suisse (1874)]. Habits of ants; observations on their carrying empty eggs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC245

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff
Date:
28 October 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.77, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC373

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 October 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.21, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH asks Thiselton-Dyer if the proof of his 'address' has been sent to the publisher, Griffith. JDH describes his present location, Alderley Grange in Wotton under Edge, as 'a lovely place'. Whilst there he is working on the Royal Society address & the 'Primer' [refers to the series of 'Science Primer' books published by Macmillan, for which Hooker wrote the volume entitled BOTANY (1876)]. The following week JDH will go to Bewdley, then to stay with [George] Maw at Broseley, Shropshire, before returning to Kew. In a post script JDH adds that he has read & enjoyed CRUISE ON WHEELS [by Charles Allston Collis] & is now reading [George Eliot's] SCENES OF CLERICAL LIFE, the best thing he has read in years, either fact or fiction. He specifically mentions the story JANET'S REPENTANCE.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-10-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
6 October 1874
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London,, Owen correspondence, vol. XIX, ff. 378-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-10-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
10 October 1874
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, 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-74-10-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
10 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/12939, unit 747, 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-74-10-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
11 October 1874
Source of text:
F74/13150, unit 747, 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-74-10-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
13 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/13228, unit 747, 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-74-10-18

From:
Morton Allport
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1874
Source of text:
Letter press copy book, Allport Library and Museum of Fine Arts, Hobart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-10-18a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
18 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/13578, unit 747, 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-74-10-18c

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1874
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-74-10-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
26 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/13681, unit 747, 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-74-10-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert Ramsay
Date:
31 October 1874
Source of text:
E74/13895, unit 747, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Letter written by G. Luehmann and signed by M
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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