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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
October 1867
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes' Verlag, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Henry Bence Jones
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 78
Summary:
CD’s sudden temporary failure of memory and his eczema are not serious and would be relieved by rest and good diet.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
October [1867]
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 96-100
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 189-192]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Traherne Moggridge
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 376
Summary:
Hopes JTM’s health will improve.
Asks for information about crosses of peas.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0467; Reel 1055
Summary:
Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Strachey
Date:
1867-10
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0468 (C: 0469 & 0470); Reel 1055
Summary:
Offers advice to president of committee for adoption of uniform system of weights and measures for India.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B43–4
Summary:
Informs CD of his reply to Argyll and the North British Review criticisms [in "Creation by law", Q. J. Sci. 4 (1867): 471–88]. Cites "the predicted Madagascar moth" and Angraecum sesquipedale.
Birth of Herbert Spencer Wallace.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 October [1867]
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B43-44
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 95
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 188]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
4 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.334)
Summary:
Replies to CL’s further comments [on Variation].
Discusses direct action of the environment as a cause of variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 61
Summary:
Asks CD’s help in translating names and descriptions of fowls [in Variation].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[6 October 1867?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 24
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 161: 62
Summary:
Some sheets of Variation have gone astray.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warington
Date:
7 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Royal College of Physicians of London (MS1001/95)
Summary:
Admires his paper ["On the credibility of Darwinism", J. Trans. Victoria Inst. 2 (1867): 39–62, and discussion 63–125].
Ridicules William H. Ince and Admiral FitzRoy on their naive ideas about Noah’s ark.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Cardale Babington
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 October 1867
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 52-53
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
8 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 14–15)
Summary:
CD provides explanations and advice on translating names and descriptions of breeds of fowls.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Oct 1867
Source of text:
DAR 181: 11
Summary:
Forwards answers from Charles Walter to some of CD’s queries about expression.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Oct 1867]
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 132
Summary:
Has CD ever considered that the colour of seeds of Amarantaceae would attract the attention of birds?
Describes case of a climbing Chamissoa of the local flora.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
9 October 1867
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 207, no. 570, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
9 October 1867
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 207, no. 569, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Heinrich Ludwig Hermann (Hermann) Müller
Date:
[9 Oct 1867]
Source of text:
Krause 1884 , p. 18
Summary:
Müller’s observations on orchids excellent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project