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From:
William Woolls
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 July 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Felix Jacob (Felix) Marchand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 202: 115
Summary:
CD has been elected to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Halle. Asks for a photograph. Encloses diploma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ann Marston
Date:
20 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 22
Summary:
Will not sign a petition, for he feels vivisection is essential to the progress of physiology.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[Bonamy?] [Price?]
Date:
20 July [1879]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/55/4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William Farrer Ecroyd
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 July 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP7/55/6
Summary:
ARW's article in the Nineteenth Century, mentioning Prof F W Newman, Mr [John] Bright and the Manchester School [Free Trade movement].
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
22 July [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 485–8
Summary:
At work on Movement in plants.
Discusses John Ball’s, G. de Saporta’s, and his own theories of higher plant origin. Their rapid development remains an "abominable mystery".
Frank is working in Würzburg.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
22 July 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to inform Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer that [Isabella] Hooker has asked JDH [& his wife Hyacinth] to stay at Largs for a few days after the funeral [of Willielma Dawson Campbell] to support the widower James Campbell. He mentions the Glasgow weather & the aragnements for the funeral at St George's Church. JDH has been walking around Glasgow remebering the places he & his brother [William Dawson Hooker] used to visit when they lived there from 1821 to 1839. They did not like Glasgow but it holds many memories never the less.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Carl Hensgen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 166: 147
Summary:
CH, a chemist interested in zoology, asks CD’s opinion of research programme described on enclosed memorandum. Programme involves investigation of ability of molluscs to build shells out of other carbon compounds in absence of calcium carbonate.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.566)
Summary:
Contributes to subscription for Grant Allen.
Regrets GJR and wife could not visit.
Encloses paper [not identified] by Thomas Meehan, a very inaccurate observer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Augustus Mongredien
Date:
23 July 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Ann Timbrell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 July 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous reports 7.7, Victoria, Miscellaneous 1861-1916 (MR/412), f. 345.M forwarded this letter, together with the samples associated with it, to J. Hooker; see M to J. Hooker, 27 July 1879 (in this edition as 79-07-27a)
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[24 July 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 200
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
24 July 1879
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letter 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:
William Ewart Gladstone
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 51
Summary:
Sends CD his collection of Homeric epithets on motion, which "indicate ideas of motion more precise and scientifically adjusted than … any other author".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Titus Munson Coan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 161: 185
Summary:
Sends CD his article on causes of decline of Hawaiian population.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
25 July 1879
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 194
Summary:
Regrets that he cannot send the promised volume [Biographie médicale, 7 vols, 1820–5, biographical appendix to Dictionaire des sciences medicales]. Offers to have his son make an abstract of the biography [of Erasmus Darwin].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 128–30
Summary:
JDH criticises John Ball’s theory of origin of higher plants in Carboniferous highlands, where low carbon dioxide levels permitted survival.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Samuel Wilks, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 July 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 103
Summary:
Sends an oration he delivered at the Royal College of Physicians in CD’s presence.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[after 26] July [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 180–1)
Summary:
Has failed with his experiments on aerial roots.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project