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FVM-73-06-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Francis
Date:
25 June 1873
Source of text:
C73/8022, unit 1022, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8950

From:
Alfred Charles Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 177: 183
Summary:

Wonders whether CD has any idea how the cuckoo manages to match its eggs to those of its host; believes it possible that the diet of the nestling cuckoo, which varies with its host, may affect its behaviour and the colour of its eggs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13794

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 26 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 5
Summary:

Sends FD £5 for the loan of his microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8952

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:
26 June [1873]
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-08)
Summary:

Would welcome JSBS visit to discuss Drosera. Nitrogenous fluids can act as ferments only if they act merely by exciting molecular movement in adjoining molecules.

Glass and cotton excite movement and cause cell contents to change visibly. Huxley coming to see this phenomenon.

Studied effect of poisons 12 or 15 years ago to see whether the action was similar to that on nervous tissue.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8954

From:
James Duncan Hague
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1873
Source of text:
Nature , 24 July 1873, p. 244
Summary:

Confirms previous observations on ants [see 8788].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8953

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 176: 68
Summary:

Is tired of inaction and so is leaving for Egypt and the East.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8955

From:
Thomas Frederick Cheeseman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 161: 137
Summary:

Sends his paper on fertilisation of the New Zealand species of the orchid Pterostylis [Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 4 (1871): 270–84].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0968

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Allen, Fanny
Date:
[28 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.11: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-73-06-28b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Samuel Bindon
Date:
28 June 1873
Source of text:
Unit 4, VPRS 4363/P Industrial Museum miscellaneous letters 1873, VA 912, Trustees of Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, inwards correspondence unregistered, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8956

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 94: 263–4
Summary:

Thanks for Dionaea.

George Bentham’s last Linnean Society [Presidential] Address [Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. (1873): viii–xxix]. Admires it greatly.

CD’s recent work leads him to a different theory [from GB’s] on the separation of the sexes of plants.

Huxley has been at Down working with CD on Drosera – very helpful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8956F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
28 June [1873]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 328
Summary:

Thanks for the extract from the American paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-06-28

From:
Niel Black
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 June 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8957

From:
Friedrich Max Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 284
Summary:

Sends three lectures on the origin of human language [see 8962].

Although a "sincere admirer", he differs with CD on the relation of human to so-called animal language.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1285

From:
Balfour, G. W.
To:
Darwin, Horace
Date:
[30 June 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 315
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8958F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Flower
Date:
30 June 1873
Source of text:
John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
Summary:

Thanks for sending WHF’s lecture, ‘On palaeontological evidence of the modifications of animal forms’ (Flower 1873).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8958

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1873
Source of text:
DAR 103: 157–8
Summary:

Leaves Wednesday with Huxley for holiday.

Family news.

He too thinks well of Bentham’s address.

Asa Gray elected Foreign F.R.S.

G. J. Allman is being proposed for Royal Medal by JDH and Huxley.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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