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FVM-81-05-00b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[William Thiselton-Dyer?]
Date:
May 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 303
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-05-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
May 1881
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-05-00d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
May 1881
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-05-00

From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
May 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M59, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Brown's letter has been cut in half. The top half, down to and including the details of No. 1, was found with a specimen of Eucalyptus obliqua (MEL 704019), the lower half, commencing with the details of No. 2, with a specimen of Eucalyptus viminalis (MEL 1615426). Both halves have been annotated by M: 'May 1881'
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-05-00a

From:
William Woolls
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
May 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0638

From:
Francis Wedgwood Sr
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
1 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12959

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Lippert
Date:
[May 1881 or later]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection ((MS.7781/1–32 item 23)
Summary:

Thanks JL for copy of Die Religionen [1881].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13142

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44469: 218)
Summary:

CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13142A

From:
Louis Alexandre Henri Joseph (Louis) Piré
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 230: 83
Summary:

CD made an associate member of the Royal Belgian Botanical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13143

From:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111)
Summary:

Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0904

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[3 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 263
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-81-05-03

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0905

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[4 May 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 264
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 May [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 179
Summary:

Discusses his investments.

P.S. on earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 11
Summary:

Responds to comments on geology of Florida.

Discusses coral reefs and paper by John Murray ["On the structure and origin of coral reefs and islands", Proc. R. Soc. Edinburgh 10 (1880): 505–18].

Comments on AA’s paper ["Paleontological and embryological development", Proc. Am. Assoc. Adv. Sci. 29 (1880): 389–414].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4605

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
[5?] May 1881
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 263
Summary:

Making arrangements to see Meldola.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Gilbert Whiteman
Date:
5 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 354
Summary:

Passage in first edition of Origin, [p. 184] on bears rendered larger and more aquatic by selection was omitted from subsequent editions on advice of Richard Owen. Has always regretted following that advice.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13147

From:
Friedrich August Tscherning
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 May 1881
Source of text:
DAR 178: 195
Summary:

Sends a copy of his dissertation on the germination of the Cucurbitaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13148F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1881
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 92)
Summary:

Discusses possible investments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-05-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
7 May 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 302
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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