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From:
Edwyn Charles Reed
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[5] [June] [1876]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 337
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
5 June [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 25 (EH 88205963)
Summary:
CD has quite given up the marine theory [of Glen Roy] and has accepted glacier lakes. "Nothing makes me gnash my teeth so much as that confounded paper of mine." It is a lesson "never in science to infer one explanation is right because no other one seems possible".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 June 1876
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:
Response to ARW’s "grand and memorable work" [Geographical distribution (1876)]. Most interesting part to CD is ARW’s "protest against sinking imaginary continents".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
[before 6 June 1876]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Requests chemical analysis of sample of both natural and burnt soil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 June 1876]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Sends analysis of burnt and unburnt samples.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
6 June [1876]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:
Gratitude for the invaluable assistance. Is disappointed that natural soil is richer than burnt. Problem of securing sufficient chemically pure soil to test growth of plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 97
Summary:
References to figures of Coryanthes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
ML MSS 562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: B124
Summary:
Comments on CD’s criticism of Geographical distribution.
Plans to sell his house.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 June 1876
Source of text:
- Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B124-125
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 f. 263
- Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 287-289]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Sackville Arthur Cecil
Date:
8 June 1876
Source of text:
Hermitage Fine Art, Monaco (dealers) (7–8 July 2020, lot 751)
Summary:
Thanks for kindness in organising special train for Caroline Sarah Wedgwood when she was taken ill.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
8 June 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
Asks about constituents of burnt soil.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Eduard Fenzl
Date:
10 June 1876
Source of text:
Eduard Fenzl Nachlass, Archiv der Universität Wien, Vienna
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
10 June 1876
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
10 June 1876
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 178
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
10 June 1876
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:
On burnt soils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George John Romanes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1876]
Source of text:
E. D. Romanes 1896, pp. 63–4
Summary:
Delighted to hear of Frank Darwin’s discovery.
Seems hopeless to reason with people about vivisection.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Townsend MacDermott
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 June 1876
Source of text:
J76/6200, unit 916, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (24 and 25 November 1981)
Summary:
CD thanks the editor of a picture book "for … the photographs of your striking pictures, & for the honour which you have done me by the introduction of my name and likeness into one of them".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June 1876
Source of text:
Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (no date)
Summary:
Thanks for his interesting essay on insectivorous plants.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project