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DCP-LETT-11357

From:
Georg Michael Asher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 119
Summary:

Has forwarded CD’s request for wheat specimens to Mr Galkine-Wrasky, Governor of Saratoff in Russia. Asks CD to send his thanks to the Governor and to allow GMA to visit Down to explain the specimens when they arrive.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-02-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Forrest
Date:
14 February 1878
Source of text:
M8/900K, Land and Survey Office, unregistered letters from settlers, Cons 5000, SDUR, State Records Office of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Pearce/Darwin Fox collection RBSC-ARC-1721-1-74)
Summary:

CD and Frank Darwin hard at work on physiology of plants.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11356

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 113
Summary:

Asks opinion of his proposal to Bartholomew Price to translate and publish C. K. Sprengel [Das entdeckte Geheimniss (1793)] and Hermann Müller [Die Befruchtung der Blumen (1873)] in one volume.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11359

From:
James Lennox Houston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 273
Summary:

Praise for Descent with slight criticism of CD’s opinion that racial divergence occurred after the continents were settled.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11359A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Bradley Thayer
Date:
14 Feb 1878
Source of text:
Professor Robert J. Barney PhD (private collection)
Summary:

Acknowledges safe return of Chauncey Wright’s letters. Has no objection to JBT’s publishing extracts from CD’s letters to Wright. [See 11338.]

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