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DCP-LETT-4577

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
29 July 1864
Source of text:
DAR 157.2: 111
Summary:

Gives an extract from his notes on Marcgravia umbellata, an epiphyte that might be the plant that Bates refers to as matador.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6690

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 241
Summary:

Sends CD a paper ["Ant-agency in plant structure", published in Spruce Notes of a botanist on the Amazon and Andes, ed. A. R. Wallace (1908)] on plant structures he believes are the work of insects; asks him to forward it to the Linnean Society [read 15 Apr 1869].

Writes of his support for the Origin, before which he had been much concerned by the delimitation of so-called species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6691

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
1 Apr 1869
Source of text:
Spruce 1908 , 2: 385
Summary:

RS’s facts are remarkable. A year or two ago CD would not have believed ants could produce an inherited effect, but he has "lately come to believe rather more in inherited mutilations". However, CD is not satisfied that the sacs are inherited and urges RS to produce any other evidence he might have.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6697

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 177: 242
Summary:

Describes the floral structure and fertilisation of some melastomes;

discusses the direct agency of insects in modifying the structure of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1661

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Frances ("Fanny") Sims (née Wallace)
Date:
27 February 1867
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/57
Summary:

The return of some of his diplomas found by her; ARW's stereoscope; spiritualism; health.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP380

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 November 1863
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/55
Summary:

Journey from Guayaquil, heart-attack, paralysis, general ill-health and poverty, inability to collect insects for ARW; botany, illness preventing his work on collection of mosses; bitterness at treatment by Sir William Hooker; newspaper reports on Darwin's Origin of Species, geographical distribution of species; ARW's Malayan collections; collectors in the Andes; tameness of native birds; marriage; possibility of returning to England.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP381

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 January 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/56
Summary:

ARW's new stereoscope; Latham's failure to publish Spruce's vocabularies, Latham's bankruptcy; return of the MS to Spruce; New Year greetings to ARW and his "charmante épouse".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP382

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 April 1867
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/58
Summary:

Spiritualism; ARW's memoir on Malay migration; inherited deafness in cats; Paris Exposition.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3916

From:
William Mitten
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
29 October 1864
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: RSP/2/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3917

From:
William Mitten
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
13 October 1867
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: RSP/2/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3918

From:
William Mitten
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
11 March 1868
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: RSP/2/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3919

From:
William Mitten
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
7 June 1868
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: RSP/2/3
Summary:

Mitten writes to Spruce that ARW and his wife Annie had left a week previously to travel to Switzerland.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3920

From:
William Mitten
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
10 August 1868
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: RSP/2/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3921

From:
William Mitten
To:
Richard Spruce
Date:
22 October 1869
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: RSP/2/3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5526

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
1? January 1861
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC65 folio 359
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5601

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
24 January 1866
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5602

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
7 May 1867
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5603

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
25 September 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5604

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
6 October 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP5605

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
16 January [1866]
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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