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FVM-74-02-22a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 February 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 139
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-02-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Balfour
Date:
22 February 1874
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, J. H. Balfour Correspondence, vol. X, no. 278
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-02-22b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
22 February 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1871-81, f. 140
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1499

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[22 Feb 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2345
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9337

From:
Praskov’ja Fëdorovna Perfil’eva (Pauline Perfilieff)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 174: 36
Summary:

Asks for CD’s photograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9313

From:
Albert Stratford George Canning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 161: 42
Summary:

More details on pea-fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8a (EH 88205933)
Summary:

CD wishes to acquire a piece of JL’s land.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1211

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
23 February 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.216-219, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9311

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 177: 301
Summary:

The Bishop of Falkland says the Fuegian natives’ health does not suffer through increased civilisation. Relates the Bishop’s observations on the state of Tierra del Fuego and its populace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9312

From:
William Withers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 181: 133
Summary:

Thanks CD for presenting books to a gardeners’ society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
25 Feb 1874
Source of text:
Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38)
Summary:

Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9314

From:
Thomas Nettleship Staley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 195–6
Summary:

Introduction of tropical fruits in Hawaiian Islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9313F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Walter Temple Goodale
Date:
26 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Stephen R. Marzilli (private collection)
Summary:

Has not the strength to discuss WTG’s letter, and points out that every organism develops from a single cell.

Does not wish to see the Book WTG offered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9316

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 89: 26–7
Summary:

Comments on several points in Descent,

doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes

and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9317A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Baker Tristram
Date:
26 Feb [1874]
Source of text:
Wheldon & Wesley (dealers) (1984)
Summary:

Asks HBT whether he received the certificate nominating Robert Swinhoe for the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9319

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 29
Summary:

Asks CD to allow his name to be put on a committee to establish a Scientific Societies Club for the fellows of the six societies that will have rooms in Burlington House.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9320

From:
Eugène Desmarest
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 172
Summary:

CD has been elected an Honorary Member of the Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP6728

From:
John Hampden
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 February 1874
Source of text:
Anon. (1875). The libel case. Summary punishment. The Chelmsford Chronicle : 5752 : 7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9318

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 8b (EH 88205933)
Summary:

The land CD wants to buy probably belongs to his marriage-settlement and would thus be difficult to sell.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9322

From:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Feb 1874
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 47–8, DAR 160: 340
Summary:

Reports negative results of his experiments on digestion of chlorophyll by Drosera and by animals. [See Insectivorous plants, p. 126.]

Sends references for chondrin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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