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FVM-85-05-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
May 1885
Source of text:
No. 4675, vol. 1885 C, VPRS 1168/P inward correspondence registers, VA 475 Chief Secretary’s Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-85-05-01

From:
Joseph Maiden
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 May 1885
Source of text:
MRS 7/1 minor correspondence outwards 1883-9, p. 469, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney
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FVM-85-05-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
3 May 1885
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, f. 145
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FVM-85-05-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 May 1885
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-1890, f. 146
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WCP3360

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Hay Sweet Escott
Date:
4 May 1885
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 58795 ff. 28-29
Summary:

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3115

From:
Thomas Hay Sweet Escott
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 May 1885
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 68-69
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3601

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Marseilles
Date:
11 May 1885
Source of text:
Dirk Backenköehler (private collection)
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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-85-05-13b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
13 May 1885
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-1890, f. 147
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FVM-85-05-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Tepper
Date:
15 May 1885
Source of text:
RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
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FVM-85-05-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Adolpho Möller
Date:
18 May 1885
Source of text:
Biblioteca do Departamento de Botânica, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal
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FVM-85-05-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
25 May 1885
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1882-90, ff. 148-9
Summary:

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Contributor:
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JHC180

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
26 May 1885
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.76-77, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH has received Asa Gray's letter from St Louis & is glad to hear he & his wife are healthier than in Mexico. JDH suggests he should go to Vancouver with the Grays. JDH reports on how things are at 'The Camp' [in Sunningdale]: the Symmonds are staying there, the Hawthorn & birch foliage is beautiful but the oak, ash & chestnut trees are coming into leaf late due to a cold spring. JDH is currently living at Kew & working on the Indian Flora, THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE & various committees. JDH refused the Presidency of the Royal Geographical Society & the Marquis of Lorne now has the post. Discusses management of the Linnean Society incl. lack of a Botanical Officer: [John] Lubbock is doing a bad job as President, [William] Thiselton-Dyer would be the best man for the job but does not want it, nor does JDH. Discusses Huxley's health & retirement. Frankland also to retire. Tells Gray what his children are doing: Charles Paget Hooker has given up his Cottishall [medical] practice & is engaged to a niece of [Thomas Robert Evans] Lombe's, Brian Harvey Hodgson Hooker [BHHH] is done at the copper mine, Harriet Thiselton-Dyer nee Hooker's health is improved, according to [Antoine Francis] Marmontel Grace Ellen Hooker excels in music at the Conservatorie de Paris, Reginald Hawthorn Hooker is doing a Bachelor of Sciences, Joseph Symonds Hooker & Richard Symonds Hooker progress. JDH has finished Indian Polygona & is working on Myristica. Discusses a letter from [Mountstuart Elphinstone] Grant Duff re. a supposed love affair between BHHH & one of the Klustines. Mentions that Bentham's sister was engaged to a Klustine & [George] Bentham [GB] himself jilted a Mademoiselle Dax for Laura Carr who in turn married a Mr Rolfe instead & later Lord Cranworth. JDH has inherited GB's autobiography & mass of Bentham family correspondence, he has been employing Miss Wallich to sort it but is not impressed with her. JDH mentions the health of his sisters: [Elizabeth] Lombe & Maria [McGilvray].

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JHC1760

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
26 May 1885
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.38, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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FVM-85-05-29a

From:
Edward Pulsford
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 May 1885
Source of text:
A2664 letter press copy book, p. 380, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (NSW Branch) papers, Mitchell Library, Sydney
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FVM-85-05-29c

From:
Grace Lewellin
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 May 1885
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Archives, Guard Book, 1885-93, p. 5
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FVM-85-05-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
30 May 1885
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London, Archives, Guard Book, 1885-93, section 5
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