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FVM-79-12-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Grey
Date:
31 December 1879
Source of text:
Grey papers, GL M50(14) GLC, Auckland Public Library
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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-12-31a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
31 December 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 252
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12378

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 26
Summary:

WMH’s agent is coming to Down for CD to sign transfer of £5000 North Eastern Railway stocks. Horace is coming to his office to execute the marriage-settlement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC420

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
31 December 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.65, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir Wiliam Turner Thiselton-Dyer about their mutual poor health. His own health is improving although he still has rheumatic pains & trouble breathing outside. He is keen to get back to work at RBG Kew. JDH is glad that Hubble is gone. He criticizes [John] Smith's tendency to give new untried [RBG Kew] staff the same salary as the experienced men they replace & blames it on his class. JDH is going to wtie to Smith about some other staff: Sharpe, Martin & Masters. He thinks that they need better management of their foremen & suggests [William] Watson. JDH thinks the qualities needed are an outdoor gardener who knows ornamental horticulture, will notice his subordinates deficiencies, which Smith does not, & who will oversee expenditure on labour, materials & plants. Such a man would be worth a good salary. Though JDH fears they would be too qualified & ambitious to remain a foreman. JDH refers to [John Hutton] Balfour selecting a man [to be his successor as Her Majesty's Botanist?]. JDH asks if [Philip Henry Wodehouse] Currie has replied to his letter, JDH forgot to send Currie the promised box of seeds for Cyprus.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP5226

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas William Bland
Date:
31 December 1879
Source of text:
Ernst Mayer Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: bMu 2900.10.1
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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