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FVM-78-12-23

From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 December 1878
Source of text:
GRG 16/3/1 Conservator of Forests letter press copy book, pp. 26-7, Woods and Forests Department, State Records, Adelaide
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11804

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 6
Summary:

Writes regarding CD’s will in the light of Anthony Rich’s proposed bequest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-12-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 228
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11805

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 7
Summary:

Regrets that illness prevents his travelling to visit CD but would be pleased to see CD or his sons at Worthing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11775

From:
Francis Sorell Arnold
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2]6 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 148
Summary:

Would like CD to explain how he reconciles two passages in 6th ed. of Origin.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11806

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
27 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.556)
Summary:

Recommends article on "Brute and human intellect" by William James [J. Speculative Philos. 12 (1878): 236–78].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-12-28a

From:
Graham Mitchell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 December 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11807

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 166: 19
Summary:

Sending second codicil for CD to sign.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11808

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 8
Summary:

Describes Anthony Rich, whom he has visited.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-12-28b

From:
Walter Hill
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 December 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M10, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11809

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 329)
Summary:

About Anthony Rich, who has decided to leave his fortune to CD [and later also to make a bequest to THH]. CD’s account of what he wrote to Rich.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11810

From:
Anthony Rich
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 210.12: 9
Summary:

He would be happy to receive a visit from one of CD’s sons at any time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE492

From:
Martha Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
69, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-11811

From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Dec 1878
Source of text:
DAR 178: 104
Summary:

Sends specimens of Commelyna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Sorell Arnold
Date:
31 Dec [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 21
Summary:

Responds to criticism concerning varieties, species, and genera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11812

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Rathbone Greg
Date:
31 Dec 1878
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.557)
Summary:

Discusses a chapter on design, written by WRG’s son [Percy Greg, The devil’s advocate (1878)]. Comments on the younger Greg’s criticisms of natural selection and evolution.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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