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JHC416

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
4 September 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.61, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is returning corrected proofs of the [RBG Kew Annual] Report to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer. As the weather is 'wretched' JDH suspects Thiselton-Dyer is troubled by leakages at RBG Kew & consequently dealing with the Works Department. JDH reports that his son Willie [William Henslow Hooker], currently with his tutor James Digues La Touche, is ill & suffering with haemorrhoids. JDH is busy re-landscaping [Sir James William] Colvile's grounds at Craigflower House. He mentions removing poplars & 'used up evergreens'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-79-09-05

From:
James Agnew
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 September 1879
Source of text:
RSA/B/1 letter index, Archives, Royal Society of Tasmania, University of Tasmania, Hobart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12219

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B5–6
Summary:

Murray’s offer to publish Erasmus Darwin. RC states terms and preliminary arrangements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0494

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[6 September 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 126
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-79-09-06

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
6 September 1879
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP2152

From:
John Gwyn Jeffreys
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 September 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 44-45
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12219F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
6 Sept 1879
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 7)
Summary:

Perhaps movement from side to side in plants is caused by the contraction of one side, rather than the expansion of the other.

Sends seeds of Lychnis Githago: he observed the hypocotyledenous stem, not the root, contracting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP834

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther
Date:
6 September 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM DF200-16-506
Summary:

Asks for Günther's opinion on whether there are fresh water fishes on the British Isles that are distinct (species or well-marked varieties) from those of the Continent; if so wd Günther send their names and nearest allies.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0841

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[7 September 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 202
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12220

From:
Victor Alexander Ernest Garth (Victor) Marshall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 46
Summary:

VAEGM pleased CD enjoyed his stay at Coniston.

Reports some rude remarks about CD made by John Ruskin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12221

From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 68
Summary:

Can dispose of CD’s geese if he wishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC417

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 September 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.62, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12222

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
9 Sept 1879
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 360–1)
Summary:

Pleased that JM will allow two-thirds profits [on Erasmus Darwin] for he wants Krause to receive some profit.

He and his son [Francis] are preparing a large botanical work [Movement in plants], dry as dust, which he must publish on commission. He will be lucky to lose only £100.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2153

From:
Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 September 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 46-47
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-09-09b

From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 September 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS 59, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12224

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Burges Goodacre
Date:
10 Sept [1879]
Source of text:
Dr John Goodacre (private collection)
Summary:

Has sent some geese.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12223

From:
Hugo de Vries
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 180: 24
Summary:

Movement of tentacles of Drosera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12226

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Sept 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 502
Summary:

On cost of the portrait of Dr Darwin, for Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-09-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Forrest
Date:
11 September 1879
Source of text:
Acc 527. 345/with item 12, State Records Office of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-09-11a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
11 September 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 243
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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