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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Joseph Hooker]
Date:
June 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 240
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
June 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 238
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
1 June 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 231
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Benjamin Wheatley
Date:
1 June 1879
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (5 April 2022, lot 146)
Summary:
Requesting a volume of the Philosophical Transactions said to contain two papers by Erasmus Darwin, also a third paper if it can be found.
Requesting parts or volume of the Philosophical Transactions due to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1879 or earlier]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 51
Summary:
Wants FD to find out what sort of man Ernst Krause is.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
2 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 271.4: 15
Summary:
Thanks for FD’s letter describing microscopic work under experienced supervision.
Is glad to hear of C. E. Stahl’s objection to treating plants as mere machines.
Pleased that J. von Sachs has yielded on growth.
Perhaps Stahl will recognise whether the case of the silver fir is the same as that referred to in the German account [see 12074b].
CD has finished the first draft of his essay on Erasmus Darwin’s life and is "heartily sick of the job".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
2 June 1879
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 356–7)
Summary:
Intends to publish a translation of Ernst Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, with a prefatory notice by himself. Asks JM to decide whether to publish it on commission or on usual two-thirds profit terms. CD incapable of judging chance of its selling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 2 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 209.5: 230–2
Summary:
Geotropism.
Experimenting on Porlieria in damp and dry earth.
Hermann Müller has been ridiculed for teaching children "in the beginning was Carbon".
Will ask about Ernst Krause.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 25
Summary:
Asks whether canary grass and oats have chlorophyll in their cotyledons.
Has been working hard at circumnutation of leaves to see whether sleep movements are exaggerated circumnutation.
Contributor:
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From:
Nicolai Mengden, Baron von Mengden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 152
Summary:
Thanks for reply to query. Asked E. Haeckel same question and his answer agreed with CD’s. Haeckel disbelieves in the supernatural. What does CD think?
Contributor:
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From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B11
Summary:
Is well disposed toward publishing Krause’s essay on Dr Erasmus Darwin, particularly if CD undertakes to fill up its gaps. He thinks ED’s reputation is increasing.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 107–8
Summary:
Has finished the first part of Krause’s MS [of Erasmus Darwin]. Expects to receive the concluding portion soon.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Bayley Balfour
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, I. B. Balfour correspondence
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.564)
Summary:
Does not feel competent to judge on matters of measurement. R. B. Litchfield to look into case.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Konstantin Petrovich von Kaufman (Константин Петрович фон Кауфман)
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 636)
Summary:
Thanks for letter of 27 April (Julian calendar; 9 May Gregorian calendar), and promised gift of wheat varieties. Will probably send them to Alexander Stephen Wilson.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 137
Summary:
Wants to republish Fritz Müller’s paper ["Ituna and Thyridia", Kosmos 5 (1879): 100–8] in Proceedings of the Entomological Society. [Thyridita!?]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Stephen Wilson
Date:
4 [June] 1879
Source of text:
DAR 148: 366
Summary:
Mentions wheat varieties sent by Governor General of Turkestan.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 5 June 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 53
Summary:
Believes that he will prove that the tip of radicle is the brain as far as geotropism is concerned.
Contributor:
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From:
Violetta Harriot Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 99: 171
Summary:
Sends her drawing of Elston Hall as it was in 1754.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
5 June 1879
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36186)
Summary:
Has read Dallas’ translation of first part of EK’s essay [on Erasmus Darwin]. Has sent his MS to printer. Is perplexed by duplication. Thinks EK’s essay is better than his. Wishes he had sent all his material to him for a single biography. Best plan may be for EK to incorporate whatever he thinks useful in CD’s material.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project