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DCP-LETT-10577

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
Date:
12 Aug 1876
Source of text:
Ernst-Haeckel-Haus (Bestand A-Abt. 1:1-52/ 39 [9892])
Summary:

Glad EH is coming to England.

Will be visiting eldest son in Southampton in September [but visit apparently delayed until 7 Oct, see "Journal"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
16 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49644: 159)
Summary:

Glad to have heard JL’s admirable speech read aloud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
18 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:

Thanks for RDF’s Australian orchids [1874]. It comes just as CD’s Orchids [2d ed.] is going to press.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10580

From:
Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 3
Summary:

Sends Serbian edition of Ernst Haeckel’s Natürliche Schöpfungsgeschichte translated by his late brother.

Serbian edition of Origin, translated by MMR, not yet published because of war with Turks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10581

From:
George Rolleston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Aug 1876
Source of text:
DAR 176: 211
Summary:

Sends three of his anthropological papers.

CD understates his case when he says the mandibular wattle of the "Irish greyhound pig" has no analogue or homologue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
21 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections (Honeyman Collection)
Summary:

Asks for tougher paper to be used for maps in Coral reefs, 2d ed.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10582A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Milan Marinković (Milan) Radovanović
Date:
25 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts (RGALI), Moscow (fund 1347, dossier 1, file 109)
Summary:

His thanks for the present of Haeckel’s work.

He will be much gratified to have MMR translate Origin if the state of his country permits. [See 10580.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10582F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Rolleston
Date:
24 Aug [1876]
Source of text:
George family (private collection) [but the images are from a facsimile DAR 185: 124]
Summary:

Thanks GR for his notes and essays [see 10581].

Similar appendages to those GR mentions [see 10581] appear on the necks of goats, but the idea of reversion to a common progenitor of goats and pigs "stumps" CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10583

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bibliographisches Institut
Date:
28 Aug 1876
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben [2d ed. (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1224

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
4 August 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.254, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1225

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
10 August 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.255, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC199

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Mrs Hyacinth Catherine Symonds (nee Kent)
Date:
26 August 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/2 f.13, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Mrs Symonds & her husband for their kindness in regard to his marriage [to their daughter Lady Hyacinth Hooker née Symonds then Jardine]. Hyacinth is well & enjoying their honeymoon. They have climbed Cader Idris together, it is 3000 ft high & Hyacinth has proved an able mountaineer. They will go next to Llanberis for Snowdon, & afterwards to Chester & the North.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-76-08-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
8 August 1876
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-76-08-10

From:
McCarron, Bird & Co.
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 August 1876
Source of text:
K76/10427, unit 930, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence VA 475 Chief Secretary Department, Public Record office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-08-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
12 August 1876
Source of text:
J76/8599, unit 883, 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-76-08-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Branwhite Clarke
Date:
19 August 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS.3608 Clarke papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.The transcription given in Moyal (2003), pp. 1131-3, differs from that given here
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-08-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
20 August 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-08-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
23 August 1876
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-76-08-23a

From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 August 1876
Source of text:
Director’s letterbooks, MVS 2/1 4, p. 224, Melbourne Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-M76-08-08

From:
Willian Henry Archer
To:
Albert Le Souef
Date:
8 August 1876
Source of text:
A345, Royal Park Zoological Society letter and minute book, pp. 220-2, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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