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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[before 1897]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 306
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Rudyard Kipling
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1897-1902
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/9/29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William James Stillman
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1897-1901
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46442 ff. 238-239
  • Natural History Museum, London: WP/17/12
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
1897-1913
Source of text:
  • Royal Entomological Society: RES 32/24
  • Royal Entomological Society: RES 32/24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Frederick ("Fred") Birch
Date:
1897-1900?
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418458
Summary:

Describes parts of the country famous for their wild flowers, including the Vale of Neath and High Force in Teesdale. Looks forward to Birch's description of his Welsh tour and writes, "I love Wales more than any part of our country. I lived at Neath 5 or 6 years and I know nothing more beautiful than the Vale of Neath right up to the grand Brecknock Beacons".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Violet Isabel] [Wallace]
Date:
[1897]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
James Marchant
Date:
1897
Source of text:
Abe Books (bookseller)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Humphry Davy
To:
Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society
Date:
5 January 1897
Source of text:
MM/17/97, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
5 January 1897
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 189
Summary:

Comments on Meldola's address on variation, with specific points.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Lady Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer nee Hooker
Date:
6 January 1897
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.154, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH returns Poulton to Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD], [presumably a copy of Edward Bagnall Poulton's book CHARLES DARWIN AND THE THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION]. JDH comments that Poulton makes too much of [Thomas Henry] Huxley & that Newton wishes to belittle both. JDH says he has written to F[rancis] Darwin on the matter. JDH talks about how he is unable to grasp the notion of Pangenesis & he & Darwin disagreed on it. Comments that WTTD's judgement of [Brian Houghton] Hodgson is just. He is a different person from the one JDH knew in Darjeeling. Comments on rumours, perpetuated by Yule & [Sir William Wilson] Hunter, of an alleged alliance with a Kathmandu woman, likely to have been a girl he bought at the market. JDH sees it as an unwise, chivalrous act for Hodgson to have brought her to live in his house at Darjeeling, which Hodgson may now regret. Describes how [Archibald] Campbell felt the dishonour of his 'old chief', Hodgson. Hunter did not include [in his biography THE LIFE OF BRIAN HOUGHTON HODGSON] all JDH said of his obligations to Hodgson. Mrs Hodgson assumed wrongly thought he JDH was one of her husband's paid collectors in India. JDH encloses duplicates of a Medallion [probably Wedgewood with a portrait of Hodgson] & a copy of one of [Sir Joseph] Banks's for Australia. He says that he has sent all to [Ferdinand von] Mueller.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
8 January 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 190
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 70-71]
Summary:

Discusses Darwin's and Weismann's views of heredity of acquired characteristics.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
11 January 1897
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.129, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
16 January 1897
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 60
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 60
Summary:

ARW will sign the form proposing C. Lloyd Morgan as a member of the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 January 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/80
Summary:

Her expenses; her brother William [sailing for America]; Century (magazine); whale on beach at Boscombe; ARW review of book on instinct by Lloyd Morgan for Natural Science; Grandpa's (William Mitten) purchase of land.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Peter MacOwan
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
20 January 1897
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC 190 folio 1241
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
20 January 1897
Source of text:
University of California, Santa Barbara: MSS 28: Box 6: 12, Wallace, Alfred Russel
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Ernst Johann Otto Hartert
Date:
21 January 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM TM1-31-9-132
Summary:

Thanks for sending papers on birds of Baly [sic], Lombok, Tomboro, Sumba & other islands. Pleased to find that despite many additions to birds on Bali + Lombok "the broad facts of distribution as indicated by myself remain almost as marked as ever".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
24 January 1897
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/81
Summary:

Sending her birthday greetings; and re. her brother William and Mac sailing [for America] from Liverpool on March 3rd.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 January 1897
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.155, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH says that he will investigate the Cypripedia when he is next at Kew. He reports that the Indian Orchideae [in FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA?] need thorough revision. He says that he had not heard of the discovery of Antherozoids in Cycas or Salisburia. Declares that [Sir Robert Falcon] Scott's research interests him. Mentions that he does not credit [Thomas] Hanbury's right to the title of Marquis any more than [Ferdinand von] Mueller's to a Baronial title. JDH is currently re-reading Boswell's Johnson: A SONG OF DEGREES, also mentions a book on Japan by an American author that he says has given him a clearer idea of ancestor worship & the oriental mind-set. Professor Morris of Melbourne wrote to compliment JDH on the publication of Joseph Banks' journal. JDH says that he looked for Myersii in Part 1 of the Kew arboretum until [George] Nicholson advised that it was in the Temperate House, however it should be hardy in the Bamboo Garden. JDH is glad that the Temperate House is to be completed, it will be a credit to Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD]. Hopes that WTTD got sufficient help during his recent illness and wonders if he would be able to travel to the Canary Islands or Madeira.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
28 January 1897
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.156, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Sir William Thiselton-Dyer of his thoughts on what he believes would be a spurious division of Cypripedia based on the character of coriaceous leaves in some Indian Cypripedia as opposed to membranous leaved species. This is a difficult distinction to make, & further if it was applied as a generic characteristic more widely, many other genera of Orchideae would be split. JDH points out that that a distinction could be made between the evergreen varieties within oaks & beeches but this has never been properly adopted. JDH wonders whether the name [for the Indian Cypripedia?] had even ben published when he was working on orchids; between 1882 & 1886. JDH is keen to know more about the antherozoids in Cycas & Thuja. References to various publications have been added to the end of the letter in a hand not that of JDH but appearing contemporary to the letter: PAPHIOPEDILUM by [Ernst Hugo Heinrich] Pfitzer, MORPHOLOGISCHE STUDIEN UBER DIE ORCHIDEENBLUTE, and BOTANISCHE JAHRBUCHER FUR SYSTEMATIK, PFLANZENGESCHICHTE UND PLANZENGEOGRAPHIE XIX.

Contributor:
Hooker Project