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FVM-62-12-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 December 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 359-62
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1410

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.49
Summary:

Trying to resolve disagreement between author of a paper, William Hopkins, and JH, a referee.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3875

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
24 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 177
Summary:

Thanks for Dawson’s letter. Doubts his evidence that climate of land was not glacial when upheaved after submergence.

Encloses memorandum of questions for C. V. Naudin.

Expression of the emotions.

Is building a hothouse for plant experimenting.

JDH’s ideas on America are more atrocious than his. What a new idea that struggle for existence is necessary to try to purge a government! Probably true. Slavery draws him one way one day, another the next. Yankees are "detestable toward us". Tocqueville.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-12-24

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 December 1862
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel9530

From:
Robert FitzRoy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.261
Summary:

Sending a gift of his Weather Book. Hopes JH will send his comments on chapter 18. Has scarcely seen M. F. Maury.

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John Herschel Project
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