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From:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.24
Summary:

His colleague, [G. R.] Waterhouse, has passed an inquiry from JH to NM regarding a mineralogical character. It is a specimen of Obsidian, very high in iron content.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
3 Dec [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 260
Summary:

Asks JL to obtain copies of CD’s botanical works for his wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:
6 Dec 1871
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Sends a copy of Orchids for his wife, T. M. Story-Maskelyne, and a few other items she may wish to have.

Climbing Plants may be purchased at Williams and Norgate; he has no clean copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Dec 1871
Source of text:
DAR 177: 261
Summary:

Thanks CD for papers he sent his wife. They will help her pass her time as an invalid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Dec 1875
Source of text:
DAR 177: 262
Summary:

He is proposing [John Wesley] Judd for FRS and asks for CD’s support.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story; Mervyn Herbert Nevil (Nevil) Story-Maskelyne
Date:
29 Dec 1875
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 88953/4)
Summary:

Has signed John Wesley Judd’s certificate.

Hopes his wife, Thereza Mary Story-Maskelyne, will not forget about the meeting at the Linnean Society on 3 February; feels E. R. Lankester’s case is very cruel.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project