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FVM-76-02-00

From:
Edward Symonds
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
February 1876
Source of text:
76/R4853, unit 735, VPRS 1207/P000 inward registered correspondence, VA 865 Department of the Treasurer, Public Record Office, Victoria.Letter not found. The text given here is from an unsigned copy of the minute (no. 1756) among the annotations on M's letter to E. Symonds, 9 February 1876
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1209

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[1 February 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1409
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0997

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 February 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10377

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 106: C20–1
Summary:

Tells CD of his engagement to Louisa, eldest daughter of Lord Claud Hamilton.

His investigations [into spontaneous generation] continue. He will deal with Bastian’s work [The modes of origin of lowest organisms (1871)].

The medical journals see that the end of the nonsense they have so long countenanced is nigh.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3368

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Lillie Craik
Date:
2 February 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 55221 ff. 5-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (19 March 2015)
Summary:

Sends autograph.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
[4 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W.T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 56–7)
Summary:

Congratulates WTT-D on [election of E. Ray Lankester to] Linnean Society.

Mentions visit to Royal Society.

Pleased to see George Bentham looking well.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
4 Feb 1876
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 24 (EH 88205962)
Summary:

Sends congratulations and a teapot on the occasion of JT’s engagement.

Is pleased JT is not giving up on the spontaneous generation question. Feels strongly that subject will not be clear until it is understood how J. S. Burdon Sanderson and others succeeded in getting bacteria in infusions they had boiled for a long time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10381

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

JT will not quit the subject [of spontaneous generation] until light is let in on every cranny of the question.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10382

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Feb 1876
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection, Ms. 84.2 (Box 3, Folder 39))
Summary:

The teapot is exquisite. Louisa says to say "the gift is worthy of the giver. Nothing higher can be said."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Koch
Date:
6 Feb 1876
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.273a)
Summary:

Discusses use by correspondent of clichés from one of his books.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0998

From:
Darwin, Leonard
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
7 February 1876
Source of text:
DAR 239.1: 4.3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-76-02-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
7 February 1876
Source of text:
J76/1250, unit 875, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
7 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Sends forms to be signed so that the trustees of the Down Friendly Society may be properly registered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10383F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Società dei Naturalisti di Modena
Date:
8 Feb 1876
Source of text:
Società dei Naturalisti e Matematici di Modena
Summary:

Thanks for his election as an Honorary Member

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-02-09

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Symonds
Date:
9 February 1876
Source of text:
76/R4853, unit 735, VPRS 1207/P000 inward registered correspondence, VA 865 Department of the Treasurer, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
[9 Feb 1876]
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 38) (EH 88205868)
Summary:

Has sent FM’s letter on to Nature ["Brazil kitchen middens, habits of ants, etc.", Nature 13 (1876): 304–5].

Would be grateful for Ceropegia seeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0459

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[mid February 1876]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10387

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arabella Burton Buckley
Date:
11 Feb [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 179
Summary:

Comments on her new book [A short history of natural science (1876)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-02-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John MacPherson
Date:
11 February 1876
Source of text:
J76/1250, unit 875, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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