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FVM-62-10-00

From:
Anatolii Bogdanov
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
October 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M199, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.An English translation of this letter was read at a meeting of the Acclimatisation Society of Victoria on 21 April 1863 and published in the Argus, 23 April 1863, p. 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3746

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
1 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 25
Summary:

Extreme interest in MS of HF’s paper on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].

Pleased HF does not believe in immutable species. Significance of proboscidean group verging towards extinction. Comments on natural selection preserving type despite variability. Natural selection solves problem of how every part of each creature has become adapted.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-10-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Toon
Date:
1 October 1862
Source of text:
Minute book 1862-8, Horticultural Society of Victoria, Hawthorn Municipal Library, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel5690

From:
George Phillips Bond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1862-10
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.179
Summary:

Forwarding account of the great comet of 1858. Regarding illustrations for astronomical monographs. Includes several publications of Harvard Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3747

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.282)
Summary:

Mentions a discussion of man by Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire in his Histoire naturelle générale [1854–62].

Mentions a book by Friedrich Rolle [Ch. Darwin’s Lehre von der Entstehung der Arten (1863)].

Cites evolutionary statements on elephants by Hugh Falconer and notes Falconer’s objection to natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3748

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
1 Oct [1862]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Thanks for information. Asks for more information about labellum of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8348

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Smith
Date:
[1 October 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.150 (C: RS:HS 23.388)
Summary:

Sends JH's translation of Book II of Homer's Iliad (1862). Hopes to publish it in Cornhill Magazine. Three reasons for wanting it to appear soon.

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John Herschel Project
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