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FVM-74-01-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 January 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 133-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-01-01a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
1 January 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 135-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC371

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer to complain about the Linnean Society, he describes it as having: 'no backbone, only an os sacrum that ought to be kicked'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC377

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is determined that he & Sir William Thiselton-Dyer will not lose Currey [as a Secretary of the Linnean Society?]. JDH supports Thiselton-Dyer's plans to reform the Linnean Society. JDH will remonstrate Allman for snubbing the Linnean Society by sending his paper to the Royal Society. Thinks they can succeed in having the Council Room turned into a meeting room on a trial basis. JDH reassures Thiselton-Dyer that his sympathies are not opposed to biological botany. He thinks the work that Thiselton-Dyer was doing for him prior to the Cape flora was not advancing Thiselton-Dyer's scientific status or wealth, though it was of great use to JDH. Thiselton-Dyer's work on the Cape flora was to redress this balance, especially as it relates to his personal field of interest, geographic botany & there is an audience for it. If Thiselton-Dyer had expressed a preference for pure physiology over systematic work JDH would have been equally supportive & still urged him to seek work that was useful & paid well. JDH's opinion of the British Association [for the Advancement of Science] is that it has out lived its original purpose & is now in unnecessary competition with other societies. He concedes that [the 44th meeting of the British Association at] Belfast was exceptional as a useful British Association exercise. The Linnean Society is useful to JDH for its resources, he joined it for his own benefit as well as science's & is willing to exert some effort to preserve it, unlike the BA. JDH observes that the biological side of zoology is becoming associated with the Royal Society rather than the Linnean & thought there should be enough papers for both there is also competition from the zoology and microscopical societies. He thinks the latter should be assumed into the Linnean Society but doubts that is practical.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1553

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
14 January 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.36, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-01-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 January 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 137-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC156

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.40, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending Elliottia & asks if anyone has fruit of it. He is unsure where to place it in relation to other genera. He is sure Cyrilla is near Ilex & Olacineae[?]. JDH has received the Aquilegia[?] roots & copy of BOTANICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. Mentions the visit of Mr & Mrs Sargent &, quoting [Charles] Dickens, describes the lady as "plump and conformable". Asks where Gray saw Rodgersia podophylla advertised. Mentions the reputations of [John Louis Rodolphe] Aggassiz & Humboldt. Calls the idea of trying to disprove [Charles] Darwin's theory before Congress "humiliating". Mentions some excellent apples. [The letter is unsigned and possibly imcomplete.]

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Francis
Date:
12 February 1874
Source of text:
E74/1901, unit 736, 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

JHC1579

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
14 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.87, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1582

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
20 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.88, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-02-20

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 February 1874
Source of text:
No. 634, unit 35, pp. 1436-7, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-02-22a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 February 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 139
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-02-22b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
22 February 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1871-81, f. 140
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1211

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
23 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.216-219, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1583

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Busk
Date:
4 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.89-90, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-03-05

From:
Thomas Ware
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 March 1874
Source of text:
No. 882, pp. 186-7, unit 36, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of 14 of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9347

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 Mar [1874]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Miscellaneous Correspondence Series)
Summary:

Asks GB to support the election of CD’s nephew, Henry Parker, to the Athenaeum Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1213

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
12 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.220-221, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-03-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 March 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 141-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC1181

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
30 March 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.145-146, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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