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DCP-LETT-4883

From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Aug 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 233–4
Summary:

J. D. Hooker is ill with rheumatic fever.

W. J. Hooker is dead and was buried yesterday.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-65-08-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
20 August 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 194
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-08-21

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
21 August 1865
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 172-3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-4887

From:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[21 or 28] Aug 1865
Source of text:
DAR 104: 241
Summary:

Reports on J. D. Hooker’s health.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-65-08-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Brewer
Date:
22 August 1865
Source of text:
MS 100, William Henry Brewer Papers, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library, New Haven, Connecticut
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2977

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adolphe Quetelet
Date:
[22 August 1865]
Source of text:
Académie belgique: #41 (C: #42)
Summary:

Has consulted with publisher of JH's 1850 review of AQ's book. Is flattered and sees no reason why AQ's enlarged work cannot prefix or append a French translation of JH's review. Publisher requests written acknowledgement. Asks AQ to attach a note, correcting his archery example.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-65-08-23a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
23 August 1865
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes' Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday4561

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
23 August 1865
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4123-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4885

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Aug [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B36
Summary:

Sends an allotment of shares which he presumes are Emma’s.

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FVM-65-08-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
25 August 1865
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 207, no. 556, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-65-08-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 August 1865
Source of text:
RBG, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 195
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel3272

From:
James Syme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.252
Summary:

Having read JH's article on light, sends observations on peculiar effects of light, particularly 'terrestrial refraction,' on rifle-shooting targets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4603

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Aug – 1 Sept 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 10
Summary:

JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9799

From:
James Glaisher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.134
Summary:

Do not send the whole parcel; one form for each month is all he requires. Has not received the report of the Luminous Committee yet. Has sent Harrow's bill to JH's son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4562

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28 August 1865
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p.4158
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11195

From:
R. Arthur Kinglake
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.85
Summary:

Sending a photograph of John Locke the philosopher. Trying to raise a fund to provide a memorial for Thomas Young. Would be pleased if JH would subscribe to it. RK's brother is the author of a work on the Crimean War.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5608

From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
29 August 1865
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4885A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1865
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21 , 2: 73–4.
Summary:

Hopes CD has received his letter of 12 August.

Sends some new observations on climbing plants. [The observations are part of "Notes on some of the climbing-plants, near Desterro, in South Brazil", J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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