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DCP-LETT-3632

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 101
Summary:

Discusses dimorphic plants, valerian and Erythraea. Would like to look at them; suggests WED draw up a paper on them.

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FVM-62-07-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 62-7
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-24b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 154
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-62-07-24

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 July 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens MelbournePublished in part in Moyal (1976) pp. 180-1
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3665

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 70: 171, DAR 101: 48–9
Summary:

Wife’s health improved by trip.

Heer’s collections convince JDH that Miocene vegetation was Himalayan, not American, as Heer supposed.

Zurich promises to be a good natural history school.

Review of Natural History Review in Parthenon [1 (1862): 373–5].

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Tyndall1917

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
24th. July
Source of text:
Add MS 63092, f. 101; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2093, BL; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1916

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
24th,. July 1862
Source of text:
MS JT/1/HTYP/520, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3663

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD grateful to have had the distinction of the two sorts of peloria pointed out to him.

His very sick son rallied; is out of danger, thanks to port wine.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3664

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
24 July [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 34 (EH 88206017)
Summary:

Asa Gray has a self-fertilising Platanthera, like the bee orchid. CD believes problem of the latter will some day be explained. Speculates [Ophrys] arachnites may be crossing form and bee orchid self-fertilising form of the same species.

Cytisus adami is a puzzle.

Pleased if DO will review Orchids [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 371–6] .

His review of Primula paper was capital. [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].

Requests peloric plants.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11626

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
E[dward] Loyd
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.382
Summary:

Writes to ask EL a series of questions about probabilities related to shooting at targets, with variations in the size and shape of the targets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7669

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 July 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.2.15; Reel 10
Summary:

Assistant Samuel Hunter will send WP's observations to JH. Original intent was to confirm JH's nebulae, but WP soon found new nebulae. Trouble finding good assistants. Note on new transit instrument.

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John Herschel Project
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