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DCP-LETT-12645

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[before 1 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 64
Summary:

Are there old furrowed fields on hillsides in N. Wales, if so can FD look for earthworm activity?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-80-08-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Joseph Hooker]
Date:
August 1880
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 288
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-80-08-00a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
August 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-80-08-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
August 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12675F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Aug 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 63
Summary:

Thanks for letter and journals. Sends information on earthworms and also information from Mr Ruck. Describes his fishing and his success finding sea shore plants that are new to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2038

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
2 August 1880
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46436 ff. 111-112
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 32-33]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12676

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
3 Aug 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for further instructions for making a solution, which will be followed as soon as Francis [Darwin] returns.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-80-08-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alphonse de Candolle
Date:
4 August 1880
Source of text:
Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow
Date:
4 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 202: 53
Summary:

Sends a statement of the assets of the Down Friendly Society. Asks for advice on consulting an actuary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
5 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 66
Summary:

Discusses corrections [to Movement in plants]. Has dispatched chapter nine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12678

From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 62
Summary:

Sends his paper on "Natural science and morality", notwithstanding CD’s disinclination for the subject. This work parallels H. Spencer’s in the Data of ethics [1879].

Clerk Maxwell and William Thomson have encouraged his work in physics; STP looks for CD’s support on evolution.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000791

From:
David Gill
To:
Warren de la Rue
Date:
6 August 1880
Source of text:
MM/12/127, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-12680

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ralph Price Hardy
Date:
6 Aug [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 62
Summary:

Asks RPH [an actuary] to act on behalf of the Down Friendly Society whose members wish the rates of benefits to be raised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-12682

From:
Adolf Ernst
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 163: 22
Summary:

Cobaea fertilisation.

Describes moth-pollination of gentian growing on Venezuelan mountains.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-80-08-07

From:
Hermann Kempe
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 August 1880
Source of text:
RB MSS M69, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12683

From:
Samuel Tolver Preston
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug 1880
Source of text:
DAR 174: 63
Summary:

Appreciates what CD says about his writing on two diverse subjects. Argues for value of "interdisciplinary approach". Has CD seen the pamphlet, "Physics and ethics" which he co-authored with an anonymous friend?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC686

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 August 1880
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 61, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-12683F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Eduard Adolf (Eduard) Strasburger
Date:
8 Aug 1880
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Bonn, Handschriftenabteilung (NL Strasburger I)
Summary:

Thanks for his book on the formation and division of cells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3818

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 August 1880
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4470

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
8 August 1880
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 122
Summary:

Dates carvings to between Palaeolithic and Neolithic eras. Mentions Sir Antonius and Mr. Cole. Will meet Meldola at six on Tuesday.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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