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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Percival Wright
Date:
6 December 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395805
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Edwin Birchall
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 December 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 70-71
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[8 Dec 1879]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 72)
Summary:
Returns Guthrie. Comments at length on Guthrie’s critique of Spencer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Burges Goodacre
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 165: 69
Summary:
The hybrid geese FBG sent to CD were brother and sister from the same hatch. Would greatly value a copy of Nature containing CD’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M59, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
William Mitten
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8? December 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 72-73
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 85
Summary:
Sorry he was out when CD came to visit.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
9 December 1879
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 56, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Carruthers
Date:
9 December 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-417863
Summary:
Heard Committee was all very much against ARW's plan of introducing "foreign trees" - want a "true English forest" - Cttee themselves have already begun planting foreign trees - avenue of poplars which are the common Lombardy and Black Poplars - no doubt think they are British because they are common.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Augustus Mongredien
Date:
9 December 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
John Fletcher Moulton, Baron Moulton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 278
Summary:
At CD’s request he has read Malcolm Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], which is a critique of First principles. He finds it a helpful clarification of Spencer’s views; however, it is as pseudo-scientific as the book it criticises.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emma Gisborne; Emma Nixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 189–90
Summary:
Thanks for Erasmus Darwin.
Violetta Darwin is near death.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albert Henry Payne
Date:
10 Dec 1879
Source of text:
Uppsala University Library: Manuscripts and Music (Waller Ms gb-00523)
Summary:
Gives his opinion on vivisection. CD detests cruelty but believes that physiology "is one of the most important sciences" and that it cannot progress without experiments on living animals.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Brahe
Date:
11 December 1879
Source of text:
General-Landesarchiv, Karlsruhe, 233/4341
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
11 [Dec 1879]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (28 March 1983)
Summary:
Sends M. Guthrie’s book [On Mr Spencer’s formula of evolution (1879)], although HEL may not care to read it having seen Moulton’s letter [12350].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Raphael Meldola
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 139
Summary:
Sends subscription form for English edition of Weismann’s Studien.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
11 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 197–8)
Summary:
Wants some apheliotropic plants for experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Friedrich Hardeck
Date:
12 December 1879
Source of text:
General-Landesarchiv, Karlsruhe, 233/4341
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
12 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Would like to subscribe to English edition of Weismann.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 391
Summary:
Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
