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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Ware
Date:
11 October 1874
Source of text:
F74/13150, unit 747, 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
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Acknowledges the information about the phosphate and about putrefaction. Regrets that there is no knowledge of the conjectured substance. [See 9671.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Oct 1874
Source of text:
DAR 103: 226–7
Summary:

Oliver will attend to his letter.

Tells of discovery and rediscovery of Aldrovanda.

Asks what CD thinks of "old Pritchard’s discourse" [C. Pritchard, Natural science and natural religion (1874)]. Does not affect evolution at all. It does affect the rather unprofitable doctrine of materialism.

His plans for the Royal Society Presidential Address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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