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FVM-69-09-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
September 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 397-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6876

From:
Thomas Spencer Cobbold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 161: 190
Summary:

Thanks CD for parasitic worms [see 6858] specimens. Supports "fact of succession".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-09-01

From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 September 1869
Source of text:
Director’s letterbooks, MVS 2/1 3, p. 329, Melbourne Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel10998

From:
J[ohn] Jones
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1869-[9 or 10]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.344
Summary:

Sending tables showing the periodical occurrences of solar spots, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, etc.; comments on his theories regarding these.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12714

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[1869-9 to 1870-2]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0129; Reel 1054
Summary:

Encloses letter regarding coinage under discussion in Parliament.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8797

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1869-9]
Source of text:
John Rylands University Library of Manchester
Summary:

Is unaware of experiment measuring amount of absolute error in transit measurements. Discusses matters relating to coinage and the standards underlying it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1462

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.76
Summary:

Still worried about the meaning of some terms in John Herschel's [JH's son] paper [see GS's 1869-7-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6877

From:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks whether he may come with F. C. Donders to visit CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1463

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[3 September 1869]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H725
Summary:

Agrees with GS's clarification of 'continuous spectra' and other terms [see GS's 1869-9-2]. Includes a copy of part of a letter from John Herschel [JH's son] about solar prominences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-69-09-03

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 September 1869
Source of text:
No. 2588, unit 16, pp. 1-2, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel14600

From:
C[harles] Rivers Wilson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0582; Reel 1093
Summary:

In recent letter to the Times regarding international coinage, JH attributed viewpoint to Col. [J. T.] Smith that was in fact expressed by J. B. Smith, M.P. for Stockport. CW's remarks on valuation of coins.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4929

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 September 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.317
Summary:

Regarding JH's letter to the Times on the gold coinage question.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP4886

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
4 September [1869]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6878

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
6 Sept 1869
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks about Charles Bell’s statement concerning contraction of eye muscles. Asks whether such contraction is related to secretion of tears.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-09-06a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
6 September 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 403
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-09-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 September 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 401-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-09-06c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Lindberg
Date:
6 September 1869
Source of text:
Sign. 630.1.1. 4, (1868- 1881), Arkivet, Svenska Literatursällskapet i Finland, Universitetsbibliotek, Helsinki
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel8965

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
6] September [1869
Source of text:
London Times (Sept. 9, 1869), p. 4, col. 6
Summary:

Corrects a misstatement JH made in his 1869-8-30 letter to the Times.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6880

From:
Walter Elliot
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 86: A74
Summary:

Sends excerpt on polygamous breeding habits of Asiatic elephants by Lieut. Johnstone [Proc. Asiat. Soc. Bengal (1868): 128]. [See Descent 1: 268.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6879

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1869
Source of text:
DAR 103: 30–1
Summary:

Reports on events at Exeter [BAAS] meeting. G. G. Stokes made a first-rate President.

Huxley "poured boiling oil" over James McCann in answer to his "conceited dogmatic sermon".

F. A. W. Miquel is coming to stay.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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