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DCP-LETT-8501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
[after 12] Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 8)
Summary:

Note authorising James West to collect Transactions on CD’s behalf.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
12 Sept 1872
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 9)
Summary:

Instructions for forwarding a parcel and outstanding issues of Transactions due him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8557

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
13 Oct [1872]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/18)
Summary:

THF’s article in Nature ["The fertilisation of a few papilionaceous flowers", 6 (1872): 478–80, 498–501] is extremely good.

Suspects he now has answer to why common peas and sweetpeas hardly ever intercross, a point which half drove CD mad for years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8885

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
28 Apr 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/19)
Summary:

Recommends Hermann Müller’s Die Befruchtung der Blumen [1873].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9003

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Aug [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/20)
Summary:

Asks THF to examine old flowers of Coronilla for holes bored by bees.

Is investigating whether drops of water injure leaves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9010

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
14 Aug 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/21)
Summary:

Thinks THF has solved the mystery of Coronilla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
1 Dec [1873]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/17a)
Summary:

Suggests a reference to Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 1 Dec 1873, p. 497, when THF takes up Coronilla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9400

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
10 Apr 1874
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/22)
Summary:

Delighted to hear about Coronilla. Urges publication ["Fertilisation of papilionaceous flowers– Coronilla", Nature 10 (1874): 169–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
4 July [1874]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/23)
Summary:

Has read THF’s article on Coronilla [see 9400] – "a very curious case"; is troubled by C. emerus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Linnean Society
Date:
23 Jan [1875]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Thanks Council for their kindness; even if he had known that the right to reprint papers was a recognised one he would have asked the Council’s consent [before reprinting Climbing plants?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

LINNEAN1646

From:
Unknown
To:
Unknown
Date:
[24 Feb 1877]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/68, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Newspaper cutting of two side-by-side engravings of Lady Smith at the ages of 16 or 17 and 94 [pencil annotations list the former age as 25 and latter as 100 and that it was taken from the "Graphic, Feb. 24 1877"]

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1647

From:
William Reed
To:
Unknown
Date:
[1872]
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/69, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Photographic copy of John Opie's (1761-1807) 1798 portrait of Pleasance Smith.

[Note in pencil by Robert Kippist on reverse] received from Lady Smith 17 September 1872.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1649

From:
Pleasance Smith
To:
Robert Kippist
Date:
16 Sep 1872
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/70, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

At present unable to locate [Alexander] Macleay's correspondence but when she does will send them. Thanks for portait of Macleay; in return sends photographic copy of [John] Opie's 1798 portrait of her.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London

LINNEAN1650

From:
Linnean Society of London
To:
Pleasance Smith
Date:
24 May 1873
Source of text:
GB-110/JES/COR/19/71, The Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Address moved by [William Jackson] Hooker and agreed at the Linnean Society anniversary meeting, congratulating Pleasance Smith on her 100th birthday.

Contributor:
The Linnean Society of London
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FVM-70-06-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
10 June 1870
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, foreign members and associates 1865-71
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-73-11-06c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
6 November 1873
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-74-06-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
18 June 1874
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-75-11-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
4 November 1875
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-76-01-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Kippist
Date:
24 January 1876
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Miscellaneous loose letters, Fellows' files, Mueller, F von, letter no. 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-76-11-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
2 November 1876
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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