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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Harrie Wood
Date:
1 September 1877
Source of text:
Present location unknownOriginal not seen; text of a letter for sale, Davidson Auctions, Annandale, NSW, 28 October 2007, lot 97
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Richard Irwin Lynch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Sept 1877 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 209.9: 110
Summary:

Cotyledon sleep movement in Haematoxylon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Roland Trimen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 192
Summary:

Thanks for Forms of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Churton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 148
Summary:

Report of child with tail and man with four nipples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 106: B136–7
Summary:

Sexual selection, he thinks, must be left to others to settle. "Conscious" will be substituted for "voluntary" selection. Sound- and scent-producing organs attributed to "natural", not "conscious", selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 September 1877
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B136-137
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 279
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 300-301]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 September [1877]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 280-281
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 301-302]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 164: 83
Summary:

Sends two papers on Roman ruins at Cirencester, which he asks CD to return.

Worm observations.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edwin Jephcott
Date:
5 September 1877
Source of text:
Private Hands
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 93–4)
Summary:

Has made out some of the functions of "bloom", which he outlines.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 Sept [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Further discussion of evidence for sexual selection. Prefers "conscious" to "voluntary" action. Distinguishes features that serve as charms and those that serve as challenges.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller?
To:
Petition?
Date:
6 September 1877
Source of text:
Unit 9, Black Picture file, VPRS 4364/P0000, National Gallery of Victoria , Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert David Fitzgerald
Date:
6 Sept 1877
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (A 2546)
Summary:

Thanks for another part of Australian orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
6 September 1877
Source of text:
Surrey History Centre: K99/3/BOX15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Austin
Date:
6 September 1877
Source of text:
  • John Hay Library, Brown University: Ms. 84.2, Box 11, Folder 6
  • John Hay Library, Brown University: Ms. 84.2, Box 11, Folder 6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Odgers
Date:
7 September 1877
Source of text:
M77/10009, unit 982, 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:
Joseph Warner Clark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1877
Source of text:
DAR 161: 156
Summary:

An example of inheritance confined to one sex.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[8 September 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 154
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
8 Sept [1877-80]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 278
Summary:

Kind of JP to send notes on horses, but will not write on subject again.

Erasmus Darwin has not left his house for three years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Hart Everett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 September 1877
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 379-380
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project