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FVM-64-08-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Darling
Date:
19 August 1864
Source of text:
M4364, unit 18, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

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DCP-LETT-4596

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 171: 320
Summary:

Is sending CD an article which he hopes will make him see that there are more causes than ice to account for the structure and wearing away of rocks. [Possibly "On the relative powers of glaciers and floating ice-bergs in modifying the surface of the earth", Can. Nat. 2 (1865): 21–33.] [J. of R. Geog. Soc. London 34 (1864)]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7170

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[19 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.57
Summary:

Comments on minting of coins [see AD's 1864-8-18], the state of JH's health, and the need for an elocution teacher for one of JH's sons.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel7171

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.373
Summary:

Has a quarter sovereign given him by Thomas Graham. Will mention the coin in Notes and Queries. Gives a pun on his own name. Anecdote of rain in India when his father and mother were travelling.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11811

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[22 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.171
Summary:

Congratulations on marriage of JH's son William. Hopes Willy and his bride will call at the Cape on their way to India. Attorney General has just returned from Grahamstown with the [Samuel] Parlby papers. Has finished work on measurement of arc of meridian.

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FVM-64-08-23

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 August 1864
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-4597

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 245
Summary:

First draft of climbing plants paper is completed.

Nepenthes is a true climber.

Scott has visited Down.

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Herschel12469

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Francis Cranmer Penrose
Date:
[23 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.335 & 24.58
Summary:

Finds FP's paper [see FP's 1864-7] interesting, but does not believe his proposal has any hope of acceptance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4417

From:
William Trant, Jr.
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.372
Summary:

Asks for JH's advice on astronomy as a profession.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-64-08-24a

From:
Carl Wilhelmi and Theodor Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 August 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 148
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Filippo Parlatore
Date:
24 August 1864
Source of text:
Carteggio Parletore, Biblioteca Comunale, Palermo
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
25 August 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70. ff. 149-51
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
25 August 1864
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 206, no. 547, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 August 1864
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives, DF3/1/ folder 42, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 August 1864
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, General Library, Owen correspondence, vol. XIX, ff. 405-8
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-25d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 August 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 184
Summary:

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DCP-LETT-4599

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[25 Aug 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 245a
Summary:

Believes he gave JDH wrong address.

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Herschel4606

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Thomson
Date:
[25 August 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.349b (C: RS:HS 24.59)
Summary:

Thanks WT for paper on rigidity of the earth; agrees tidal action affects not only fluid motion of earth, but the solid as well. Mentions JH's paper of the previous year suggesting that tidal waves cause earthquakes. Raises questions about the idea of the earth as a magnet and about WT's dynamical theory of heat.

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John Herschel Project
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FVM-64-08-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
26 August 1864
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha.For a published version of this letter see Voigt (1996) pp. 57-9
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-26a

From:
Henry Warde
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 August 1864
Source of text:
Unit 2, p. 72, VPRS 1092 Governor's letter books, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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