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From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
June 1876
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bowman, 1st baronet
Date:
1 June [1876]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Regrets he cannot hear lecture by F. C. Donders.
Hopes to see WB before he returns home.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 4
Summary:
Has examined sections of teasel in putrid meat infusion and ammonia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 271.3: 15
Summary:
Comments on FD’s discovery – "if it so proves". It will be important to see whether the protoplasm oozes through the cell-walls [of Dipsacus] or whether it can be withdrawn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 54
Summary:
Greatly excited by the astronomical implications of his work.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 52–4
Summary:
Anticipates reading Haeckel’s Perigenesis der Plastidule [1876].
Physiologists will think vivisection bill stringent.
Honorary memberships of Physiological Society created expressly to honour CD.
Working hard at jellyfish just now. Needs snake poison.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Davis; Mary Lua Adelia (Mary) Treat
Date:
1 June 1876
Source of text:
Amy Nagashima (private collection)
Summary:
Thanks MT for her article ["Is the valve of Utricularia sensitive?", Harper’s New Mon. Mag. 52 (1875): 382–7]. Does not understand why he failed to detect movement [in Utricularia], but it appears from her observations that the valve is sensitive.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project