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DCP-LETT-11795

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 121–4
Summary:

Congratulates CD on the Anthony Rich bequest.

Sad but relieved to retire as President of the Royal Society.

Describes battle with Treasury over use of an empty house at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11793

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
14 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Is glad book progresses; answers translation query.

Francis Darwin does not have time to lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11772

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Torbitt
Date:
[1]4 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 148: 106
Summary:

Congratulates JT on success in breeding potato varieties.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1736

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
15 December 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.14, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11797

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ogle
Date:
16 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 203
Summary:

Thanks WO for advice and assistance for his son, Horace.

Has read Kerner’s book [see 11666]; finds the translation "as clear as daylight" but fears it is too good for the English public who like "very washy food".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC663

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
16 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 43, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FL-0826

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[17 December 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 187
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11798

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 479–80
Summary:

Waiting for frost to go so experiments can start again.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC664

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
17 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 44, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-78-12-17

From:
the Royal Horticultural Society
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 December 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.26, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-12-17a

From:
Ulysses Bagot
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 December 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP5277

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alexander Strahan
Date:
17 December 1878
Source of text:
Princeton University Library, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections: C0140 (General Manuscripts Collection), Box 52. Manuscripts Division. Department of Rare Books and Special Collections. Princeton University Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-12-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
18 December 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 227
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC666

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
18 December 1878
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 45, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-78-12-19

From:
James Dickinson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 December 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP2385

From:
Edward Derwent Atkinson
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 December 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 431-432
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11800

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 18
Summary:

Revision of CD’s will to reflect Anthony Rich’s gift and to increase daughters’ inheritance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11801

From:
Gabriel Cornelius (Gabriel) Max
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 107
Summary:

Relates dream suggesting CD’s belief in spiritualism. Asks if Wallace is clairvoyant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11803

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Louis Charles Joseph Gaston (Gaston) de Saporta, comte de Saporta
Date:
22 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Archives Gaston de Saporta (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks for GdeS’s Le monde des plantes [1879].

CD has just read "Végétation polaire" [C. R. Congr. Int. Sci. Geogr. 1 (1878): 197–242] with interest. Hooker gave it conspicuous place in his Royal Society Address (1878).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11802

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
22 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 28 (EH 88205966)
Summary:

Returns the siren; the plants "ill luck to them, are not sensitive to aerial vibrations". Is ashamed of his blunder.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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