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From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
June 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[early June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 107
Summary:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[late June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 111
Summary:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[early June 1878?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 175
Summary:
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Odoardo Beccari
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32
Summary:
No summary available.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
Date:
1 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 383
Summary:
Discusses EM’s book [Die Dolomit-Riffe von Südtirol und Venetien (1878–9)]. Pleased by EM’s views of geological chronology based on evolution. Thinks distribution of land and sea formerly very different. New genera and families may have been developed on isolated tracks and migrated.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
2 June 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 126–7)
Summary:
Cactus and Cycas seedlings: observations and queries.
Working hard on plant movements.
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 108
Summary:
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 109
Summary:
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
4 June 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Summary:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Julius Cohn
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 249: 73
Summary:
Comments on achenia of Pumilio argyrolepis.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 [June 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 22
Summary:
Sends letter and seeds from [F. J. Cohn].
Is working too hard.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Henry Kesteven
Date:
5 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 16 (EH 88206068)
Summary:
Feels WHK’s views on the origin of tumbling in pigeons are very likely correct.
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From:
Johann August Georg Edmund (Edmund) Mojsisovics von Mojsvár
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 227
Summary:
Pleased with CD’s praise of his work. He agrees with CD that intermediate marine fossils are rare in the same bed. The difficulty is overcome by extensive search of "isotopic" fauna in different beds of the same "isotopic" region.
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From:
John Innes Rogers
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 176: 198
Summary:
Suggests sensitive plants that close at night would be protected from nocturnal-feeding snails. JIR’s brother in India says snails occur there in abundance.
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 349
Summary:
Sends article on "Evolution" [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed.]. CD will be interested in Lamarck’s opinions in 1794.
Is working on crayfish and their distribution.
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From:
John Coghlan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 198
Summary:
Report of an "eight legged horse" considered to be an example of reversion.
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 109–10
Summary:
JDH’s scheme for lowering F.R.S. fees by creating a fund through membership subscription.
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 June 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 218
Summary:
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