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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
30 July [1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 41
Summary:

Comments on function of bloom.

Describes the effect of water shortage on sleep movements in Porlieria.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 104: 114
Summary:

Burdened with Anniversary Address to the Royal Society.

Quips that even Huxley is running out of speeches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Mary Elisabeth (Mary) Johnson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 22 July 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 168: 73
Summary:

She and her father will not be idle working on worms for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
Date:
18 July [1878]
Source of text:
Dr N. Hammond (private collection)
Summary:

EFL’s account of what CD has done in natural history is full and accurate and could not have been done better. He has added the titles of his later books and the name of his maternal grandfather [Josiah Wedgwood] of whom he is proud.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Herbert Samuel Sanguinetti
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
July 1878
Source of text:
DAR 209.13: 9r
Summary:

Change of address.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
19 July 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.48, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Letter informing Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer of the death of JDH's niece Willielma Campbell née Hooker. Her mother Isabella [Whitehead Hooker] has not been clear about the cause of Willielma's death. She will be buried at the Glasgow necropolis near the High Church. JDH & family will travel to Glasgow & stay at the Royal Hotel, Georges' Square.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
5 July 1878
Source of text:
MU 94, box 4 (3579), Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Malcolm Fraser
Date:
7 July 1878
Source of text:
Colonial Secretary's Office, SDUR/M8/900B, State Records Office of WA, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Decaisne
Date:
8 July 1878
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
8 July 1878
Source of text:
VPRS 5831/PO/7, correspondence inward — miscellaneous letters, p. 160, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery of Victoria 1869-1944, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
9 July 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 18.5, Falkland Islands. Miscellaneous, 1841-1928 (MR/770), f. 327.The series contains a group of correspondence related to the Tussock Grass, including references to seed being sent to both Guilfoyle and M, as well as correspondence with Lady Matheson on whose estate in Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, it had been growing
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Duthie
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Letters to J. F. Duthie, vol. 2, f.119
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
23 July 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Daniel Hack Tuke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 July 1878
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/179
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
John Wesley Judd
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 July 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 390-391
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
William Gifford Palgrave
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
3 July 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 f. 392
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Othniel Charles Marsh
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 July 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 393-394
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Hart Everett
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
20 July 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 395-396
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Sophia Elizabeth De Morgan (née Frend)
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
23 July [1878?]
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 161-163
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project