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From:
Darwin, Horace
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[August 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 875
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
August 1879
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
August 1879
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
August 1879
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
August 1879
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1877-82
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No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Felix Jacob (Felix) Marchand
Date:
[c. 1 Aug 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 115v
Summary:
Thanks for his election to the Naturforschende Gesellschaft, Halle. Will send photograph as requested.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
-8-1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.53, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] about attending a cattle sale at Dunmore with [James] Colvile. He describes his rooms at Tullyallan [Tulliallan] Castle near Kincardine in Fife. He mentions that Lord Keith filled the house with pictures of Naval engagements & mezzotints of [George] Romney, [Sir Joshua] Reynolds & [John Singleton] Copley & [Francesco] Bartollzzi's things. He describes the house's current owner, Lord William Osborne, who served at the Siege of Bhurtpore & under Colvile's uncle Lord Auckland. He came to Tulliallan through his wife, 'Lady William' [Georgina Augusta Henrietta Keith], & now lives a life of leisure. JDH also describes 'Lady William'. Other people at Tulliallan were: Lady Julia Wombwell, Lord Moreton who is Lord Ducie's son & a Cattle breeder, & a Parson from Ross in Hereford. He describes the cattle sale & the prices fetched. JDH has received letters from WTTD & approves of all his suggestions & his improved letter regarding a grant. JDH is concerned about [John] Smith's health & recommends that WTTD consult Dr Laurence & refer to the kindness of Cundale, for example in the rolling machine accident, & the mischief of a previous doctor called Davis. Mentions the contract for the 'T' [Temperate?] House & potential appintments to natural history positions in Scotland for [E. Ray?] Lankester, [Henry Alleyne] Nicholson of St Andrews & William Carmichael McIntosh. Also mentions: memo to [Algernon Freeman]-Mitford & the board regarding Wilkie, Smith & the management of Kew's buildings by the Clerk of Works; letter about Ceylon [Sri Lanka] forests; [Mordecai Cubitt] Cooke's work on fungi; & [John] Macoun's Canadian plants. Discusses the housing of [John] Peacock's succulents, he would prefer an annex be built on the succulent house to continuing the displacement of the Australian plants from the Octagon. JDH sends his regards to the Brightwen family. He approves of the dismissal of Taylor based on 'neglect of orders'.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Osmond Fisher
Date:
1 August 1879
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[2 Aug 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 63
Summary:
Tells arrangements for their journey to Coniston.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
2 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.66-67, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
JDH writes that he encloses: a cheque for Asa Gray, & Mr Brown's account of the sale of Gray's books etc [enclosures not present]. Asks about 'Mr Millar's check'. JDH's niece Willielma Campbell died after giving birth to still born child. JDH attended the funeral in Glasgow, his wife [Hyacinth Hooker] accompanied him to comfort Isabella Hooker, Willielma's mother. JDH's sister Bessy [Elizabeth Evans-Lombe nee Hooker] is staying with him at Kew on her way to visit their Aunt Brightwen in Norfolk. JDH wishes he had been with Gray in the Alleghenies. JDH asks Gray if he should send Hayden the ATHENAEUM &c for the Survey library. JDH asks what has become of his & Gray's report. George Bentham is visiting Munro. JDH & Bentham are printing the next volume of GENERA PLANTARUM, incl. Chenopodiaceae. JDH criticises Muller's article NATIVE PLANTS OF VICTORIA, particularly his intercalation of monosplanes with Choripetaleae, description of Nyctagineae & figure of Boerhavia. Mentions George Henslow's 'weeds'. Encourages Gray to come to England. JDH would like to make another trip to America but does not want to abandon Bentham as they are working on monocots for GENERA PLANTARUM. JDH praises Bentham's skill & productivity. JDH recommends that Gray work on North American Flora, new edition of his text book & Hayden's report. He suggests Gray read Bales' Royal Geographical Society lecture on alpine floras in GARDENERS' CHRONICLE. Charles Darwin is in the Lake District. Mentions Engelmann's work on differentiating Pinus species. JDH is impatient for the continuation of Watson's bibliography to simplify referencing American botany. Comments on Gray building a library & herbarium [at Harvard] & on narrow minded attitudes towards Sargent. Mentions Clarke. JDH's book TOUR IN MAROCCO [Morocco] is making a loss. Charles Paget Hooker is trying again to pass at the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Edinburgh. The glass houses at RBG Kew have been damaged by a hail storm.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Robert Temple Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 181: 177
Summary:
Lack of success in breeding horses in Bengal is related to damp climate. Encloses letter from F. G. Ravenhill concerning an unpublished report by the Stud Commission on animal breeds in Bengal.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[4 August 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 125
Summary:
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Darwin Family Letters
From:
Reginald Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 160–1
Summary:
Sends an address by Dr Erasmus Darwin [to the Derby Philosophical Society].
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Day
Date:
4 August 1879
Source of text:
Private hands
Summary:
No summary available.
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
4 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
Summary:
Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anton Heinrich (Anton) de Bary
Date:
5 Aug 1879
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A 45a)
Summary:
Thanks ADeB for sending specimens of Utricularia to Francis [Darwin]. Urges him to publish his observations, because Utricularia differs widely from Drosera. CD has been unable to detect any evidence of true digestion in Utricularia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Osmond Fisher
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 August 1879
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 32-35
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Fiske
Date:
5 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 8267)
Summary:
Thanks for JF’s book [Darwinism and other essays (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 August 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.175, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 August 1879
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 36-37
- Irons, J. C. (1896). In: Autobiographical Sketch of James Croll LL.D., F.R.S., Etc. London: E. Stanford. [p. 334]
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