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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Royal Society Letters, c . 1875 – c . 1905, JDH/2/18: f.36)
Summary:

JDH may put CD’s name down for £200 for the proposed fund.

Does JDH have a plant of Porlieria hygrometrica he could lend to CD?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
8 July 1878
Source of text:
VPRS 5831/PO/7, correspondence inward — miscellaneous letters, p. 160, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria 1869-1944, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 July [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 135–6)
Summary:

Movement and sensitivity of flower parts; relationship to cross-fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 July 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.48, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Letter informing Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer of the death of JDH's niece Willielma Campbell née Hooker. Her mother Isabella [Whitehead Hooker] has not been clear about the cause of Willielma's death. She will be buried at the Glasgow necropolis near the High Church. JDH & family will travel to Glasgow & stay at the Royal Hotel, Georges' Square.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 July [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 137–40)
Summary:

Federico Delpino on mechanical movements of flower parts of Maranta. CD’s observations on Maranta, and his eagerness to compare cases of movement and irritability in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Duthie
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Letters to J. F. Duthie, vol. 2, f.119
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 18.5, Falkland Islands. Miscellaneous, 1841-1928 (MR/770), f. 327.The series contains a group of correspondence related to the Tussock Grass, including references to seed being sent to both Guilfoyle and M, as well as correspondence with Lady Matheson on whose estate in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, it had been growing
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project