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WCP1612

From:
William Farrer Ecroyd
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 July 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/55/6
Summary:

ARW's article in the Nineteenth Century, mentioning Prof F W Newman, Mr [John] Bright and the Manchester School [Free Trade movement].

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 485–8
Summary:

At work on Movement in plants.

Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".

Frank is working in Würzburg.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC404

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 July 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to inform Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that [Isabella] Hooker has asked JDH [& his wife Hyacinth] to stay at Largs for a few days after the funeral [of Willielma Dawson Campbell] to support the widower James Campbell. He mentions the Glasgow weather & the aragnements for the funeral at St George's Church. JDH has been walking around Glasgow remebering the places he & his brother [William Dawson Hooker] used to visit when they lived there from 1821 to 1839. They did not like Glasgow but it holds many memories never the less.

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Hooker Project
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