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DCP-LETT-7017

From:
Charles Boner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1869 – early Jan 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 237
Summary:

In answer to CD’s queries, relates further details about feral sheep: they are sterile when wild, but can become tame again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-7018

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
1 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 31)
Summary:

Role of humming-birds in plant fertilisation.

Alexander Agassiz has visited Down.

Sales of Facts and arguments for Darwin.

Encloses copy of T. H. Farrer letter [7015] and observations on the self-sterility of Eschscholzia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7158

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1869]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 17
Summary:

Discusses some calculations which he is doing for CD on the ratios of red and brown colouring in some animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14718

From:
T. P. Anderson and J. H. Shonbridge
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2] December 1869
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0917.2; Reel 1083
Summary:

[Summary in JH's hand:] Enquiry about Henry John Hollier's request for advance on mortgage. Enclosed form to be signed by JH [as co-trustee] or chief accountant of Bank of England. [JH note: signed form and returned it to Anderson and Shonbridge. Forwarded letter to Few & Co.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6349

From:
J[ohn] Browning
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.113
Summary:

Sending JH a set of stereograms of prisms.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

RS-MM-000943

From:
William Allen Miller
To:
W White
Date:
3 December 1869
Source of text:
MM/14/219, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP667

From:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 December 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418309
Summary:

Proposes to include a paper on the Hymenoptera of the Eastern Archipelago at a meeting of the Linnean Society. Will ARW read his own paper on the subject that evening.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-12-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
4 December 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 413-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-12-04a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 December 1869
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 410-11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7019

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 106: B88–9
Summary:

Inquires about arrangements for the German translation and publication of their original Linnean Society papers [Collected papers 2: 3–19].

ARW thinks he has hit upon a solution to problem of geological time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1927

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 December [1869]
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B88-89
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 193
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 248]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1928

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 December [1869]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 194-195
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 249]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7020

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 194–5)
Summary:

Further comments on arrangements for German translation of their joint paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7023

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B67, DAR 166: 234
Summary:

Encloses a letter to which he had replied and saw no need for further attention.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-69-12-08

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7024

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec [1869]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 75
Summary:

Is glad CD likes the new edition [of Prehistoric times].

Has been lecturing in Scotland.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP668

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
8 December 1869
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418318
Summary:

Asks to change their appointment because of a prior engagement.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel13781

From:
Pierce Butler
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0131; Reel 1087
Summary:

Grateful for JH's interest in survey of Sinai Peninsula and loan of JH's theodolite. [H. S.] Palmer will visit JH and receive instruction in its use. Asks to name JH as co-trustee of survey with Henry James.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-69-12-10

From:
John Lewis
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 December 1869
Source of text:
Unit 3, pp. 278-9, VPRS 7936/P1 outward letterbooks of the Secretary for Lands, Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-69-12-10a

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 December 1869
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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