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FVM-69-04-26

From:
Gordon Gairdner
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 April 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS M202, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Copy at the National Archives, London, CO 447/12, Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, 1869, vol. III, Warrants, Letters &c
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel11926

From:
Russell Henry Manners
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.288
Summary:

Thanks for the additional information regarding Argus by Elias Loomis and J. Tebbutt; it will appear in the next R.A.S.M.N.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6714F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
J. Noordhoek Hegt
Date:
27 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Stadsarchief, Amsterdam (395: 614)
Summary:

Arranges to send a copy of Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6714

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Maw
Date:
27 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (MAW/1/16)
Summary:

Thanks GM for specimens of Drosophyllum; by a strange coincidence CD has also received plants from a correspondent in Oporto [W. C. Tait].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
1869-4-27 or earlier
Source of text:
JHS 6.46
Summary:

Talks about problems of observing nebulae—one of which seems to have changed—and one of which is in the catalogue and does not seem to exist.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-69-04-28b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Charles Pascoe
Date:
28 April 1869
Source of text:
No. 1291, unit 2, VPRS 578 Echuca borough letters received 1869, Municipalities, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6707

From:
Edward Jones
To:
Mary Anne Matthews; Mary Anne Ruck
Date:
28 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 83: 182–3
Summary:

Horns of sheep [see Descent 1: 289 n. 26].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6715

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 368
Summary:

Has sold 400 copies of Facts and arguments for Darwin. It is a poor time for bookselling.

Last Quarterly Review has best exposition of Darwinism he has met with [A. R. Wallace, "Geological climates, and origin of species", Q. Rev. 126 (1869): 359–94].

Proposes to print 2000 copies of a new [5th] edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4881

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
28 April 1869
Source of text:
  • American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
  • Wallace, A. R. (1908). In: My Life: a Record of Events and Opinions (2nd edition). London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 224]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6760

From:
Mary Anne Matthews; Mary Anne Ruck
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[29 Apr – 27 May 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 83: 190, DAR 84.2: 211
Summary:

Sends message to CD about development of horns in sheep.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6720

From:
Spiridion Brusina
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 160: 354
Summary:

SB is founding a natural history society to study the flora and fauna of the southern Slavic countries.

Plans to print portraits of the four most distinguished naturalists and asks for a photograph of CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6717

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 161: 70
Summary:

A new edition [4th German] of Origin to be published by Schweizerbart. JVC asks CD to send any changes or additions.

Variation has sold two-thirds of the first printing [1868].

Hopes he may do translation of CD’s new work [Descent].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6719

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 369
Summary:

Confirms a request by CD that Murray’s supply electrotypes of Orchids at most reasonable possible price.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-04-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
29 April 1869
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 208, no. 575, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6718

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
29 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 201–2)
Summary:

Thanks JM for Quarterly Review. A. R. Wallace’s article inimitably good – and a triumph that it appears where it will make B[ishop] of O[xford] and Owen gnash their teeth.

Delighted at the sale of F. Müller’s book.

Thinks he has brought Origin up to "present standard of science" [5th ed. (June 1869)].

Slow progress on Descent.

His horse rolled over him, but he is recovering rapidly.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6716

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
29 Apr [1869]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (MS. Autogr. b. 4, fol. 119a)
Summary:

Has made a wonderful recovery [from riding accident].

Asks for information on blushing and screaming [for Expression].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6762

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maximilian (Max) Schmidt
Date:
[29 Apr 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 65
Summary:

Asks MS whether he will examine adult mandrills and describe the sexual differences in colouring.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7409

From:
Lawrence Ruck
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 29 Apr 1869?]
Source of text:
DAR 88: 134–5
Summary:

On the horns of castrated lambs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6721

From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Apr 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 80
Summary:

Sends paper on the "Origin of genera".

J. Decaisne, in last week’s Gardeners’ Chronicle, on the apple, cannot mean there are no intermediates between Malus and Pyrus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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