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From:
Samuel Guppy
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1874-1875
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 418-419
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[1874–8]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 250
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Jan 1874]
Source of text:
Nature , 19 February 1874, p. 309
Summary:

Agrees with Bates that neuter termites are not modified imagos (sterile females), but modified larvae (of both sexes).

Systematic relations of stingless honey-bees (Melipona and Trigona) are not yet well established.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
[1874–82]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 123
Summary:

[Valediction and signature only.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
John Traill Taylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1874-1877
Source of text:
Wallace, A. R. (1877). Notice of books. Quarterly Journal of Science : 7 : 391-416 [pp. 411-412]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1874–5?]
Source of text:
DAR 97: C40
Summary:

Although he formed a high opinion of one of the correspondent’s papers, regrets that he could not presume to give an opinion of the merits of a candidate in chemistry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1892
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
George Robert Crotch
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1874?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 279-280
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[1874]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 116
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
1 January 1874
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 January 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 133-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
1 January 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 135-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
John Hampden
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
1874
Source of text:
  • Anon. (1875). Is the world flat?. London West End News: 13 March 1875: 7
  • Anon. (1875). Spring assizes. The Times (London): 8 March 1875: 11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
James Clerk Maxwell
To:
William Davidson Niven
Date:
c.1874-1875
Source of text:
MM/16/56, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
1 Jan 1874
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 36)
Summary:

Thanks for two pamphlets.

Sends Thomas Belt’s [The naturalist in Nicaragua (1874)], "the best Nat. Hist. book of travels ever published".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Louis Pasteur
To:
Jean Baptiste Andre Dumas
Date:
c.1874
Source of text:
MM/5/54, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.19, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer to complain about the Linnean Society, he describes it as having: 'no backbone, only an os sacrum that ought to be kicked'.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
--1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.25, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH is determined that he & Sir William Thiselton-Dyer will not lose Currey [as a Secretary of the Linnean Society?]. JDH supports Thiselton-Dyer's plans to reform the Linnean Society. JDH will remonstrate Allman for snubbing the Linnean Society by sending his paper to the Royal Society. Thinks they can succeed in having the Council Room turned into a meeting room on a trial basis. JDH reassures Thiselton-Dyer that his sympathies are not opposed to biological botany. He thinks the work that Thiselton-Dyer was doing for him prior to the Cape flora was not advancing Thiselton-Dyer's scientific status or wealth, though it was of great use to JDH. Thiselton-Dyer's work on the Cape flora was to redress this balance, especially as it relates to his personal field of interest, geographic botany & there is an audience for it. If Thiselton-Dyer had expressed a preference for pure physiology over systematic work JDH would have been equally supportive & still urged him to seek work that was useful & paid well. JDH's opinion of the British Association [for the Advancement of Science] is that it has out lived its original purpose & is now in unnecessary competition with other societies. He concedes that [the 44th meeting of the British Association at] Belfast was exceptional as a useful British Association exercise. The Linnean Society is useful to JDH for its resources, he joined it for his own benefit as well as science's & is willing to exert some effort to preserve it, unlike the BA. JDH observes that the biological side of zoology is becoming associated with the Royal Society rather than the Linnean & thought there should be enough papers for both there is also competition from the zoology and microscopical societies. He thinks the latter should be assumed into the Linnean Society but doubts that is practical.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
c. 1874
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
1 Jan 1874
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for the honour conferred by his election as an honorary member, though ill health may prevent his taking advantage of the privileges granted.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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