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FVM-78-10-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
24 October 1878
Source of text:
Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11727F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Margaret Landell Sharpe; Margaret Landell Pennington
Date:
24 Oct 1878
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (25 January 2022, lot 132)
Summary:

Sends his autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11727

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 150–2)
Summary:

Wants some plants for sleep-movement observations. Has almost finished experimental work and must start sorting his notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-10-26

From:
Alexander Forrest
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 October 1878
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11728

From:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 177: 265
Summary:

EAS eagerly awaits the publication of CD’s work on heliotropism.

Sends him a paper on "Polyembryonie" [Jenaische Z. Med. & Naturwiss. 12 (1878): 647–70].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3814

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 October 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2383

From:
John Jenner Weir
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 October 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 427-428
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-10-28

From:
Charles French
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
28 October 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Keeper's Archives (Zoological Department), Letters 1878, vol. 14, f. 379b
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0487

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
28 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 118
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11729

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
29 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 74
Summary:

Rejoices that he should have "staggered" William Thomson so quickly and that the latter should speak of GHD’s "discovery". The internal heat [of the earth] will please geologists and evolutionists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-10-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
30 October 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Archives, DF200/14, Letters 1878 L-Z, f. 379
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11730

From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 130
Summary:

Plans to produce a translation of Weismann’s Studien zur Descendenz-Theorie [1875–6] and would welcome a preface from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11731

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
30 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 189–90)
Summary:

Wants Impatiens seeds, in order to observe movements of cotyledons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0495

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
31 October [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 127
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11732

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
31 Oct [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Will do his best to provide preface for Weismann’s Studien [see Collected papers 2: 280–1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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