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WCP7139

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 367
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12363

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
19 Dec [1879]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 494–5
Summary:

JDH convinces CD not to press for pension for Wallace.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12366

From:
Arabella Burton Buckley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 368
Summary:

Thanks CD for trouble over Wallace, even though success not assured.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12368

From:
Robert Walker Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 218: D2, D3
Summary:

RWD has read "with deep interest" Erasmus Darwin. He has copies of four letters from Erasmus Darwin to his great-grandfather, Richard Dixon, and he encloses a copy of the most interesting one.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP7128

From:
Arabella Burton Fisher (née Buckley)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 December 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 160: 368
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12367

From:
Adam Fitch
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 164: 129
Summary:

Questions CD on the possibility of selecting disease-resisting potatoes to produce ultimately a disease-resistant variety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12368F

From:
Robert Walker Dixon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 20 Dec 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 218: D1
Summary:

Three letters from Erasmus Darwin to Dixon’s great-grandfather, transcribed by Dixon. Enclosure to a missing letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0856

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[21 December 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 217
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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WCP3815

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 December 1879
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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WCP1798

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Richard Hill Norris
Date:
21 December 1879
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham: US41/7/21/20
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0363

From:
Chester, J. L.
To:
Darwin?, G. H.
Date:
22 December 1879
Source of text:
DAR 210.14: 35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-79-12-22

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Krauss
Date:
22 December 1879
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12368A

From:
Lewis Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1879
Source of text:
CUL, Darwin Pamphlet Collection Q301 (tipped into L. Wright [1873] , pt 21)
Summary:

Is sending CD his Illustrated book of poultry in which the chapter on the "Origin of the domestic fowl" may be of interest.

He ventures to mention several errors in Variation.

Mentions the late Mr Lane of Bristol, a celebrated Spanish breeder (of poultry).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-12-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Macarthur
Date:
23 December 1879
Source of text:
A2939 Macarthur papers, vol. 43, p. 321, Mitchell Library, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-12-23a

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 December 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.First sheet of MS, and the separate sheet headed Bastard Bloodwood’, found with a specimen of Corymbia sp. (MEL 232043). Second sheet of MS, commencing ‘No 2”, found with specimen of Eucalyptus melanophloia (MEL 230497). In his notebook (Notebook, Colonial Botanist, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane), Bailey records this letter as follows:Dec 23rd 1879Sent Baron Mueller the 2 Eucalypts brought from the Ravenswood & Charters Tower ranges for Rev. J. E. Tenison woodsNo 1 Leaves ovate p[…]ate at the base tree 30 ft high Bark yellowish brown both on trunk & branches scaly scales [soft] E. peltata Benth.No 2 tree 20 ft high leaves opposite, cordate auriculate, sessile, all similar and glaucous E. pruinosa Schau
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12369

From:
Robert Arthur Job
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 168: 64
Summary:

RAJ is the son of cousins and wishes to marry his cousin. Is anxious for information on consanguineous marriages and on the advisability of his proposed marriage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4463

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
23 December 1879
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 115
Summary:

Wishes to thank his unknown friend, who has made him a life member of the Entomological Society. More about Epping Forest -changes he would make. Mr. Bedford (chairman of committee) favours Mr. MacKenzie for the post of ranger. Butler would have been next.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-12-24b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Odoardo Beccari
Date:
24 December 1879
Source of text:
University of Florence, Science Library: Botany, Archives, Beccari 12/32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-12-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
24 December 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-12-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
25 December 1879
Source of text:
Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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