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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
11 April 1828
Source of text:
British Library Add. 32441: 55-6
Summary:

No summary available.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
1 January 1831
Source of text:
British Library Add. 32441: 133-34
Summary:

Sends Brown a copy of his recently published paper, On the Examination of a Hybrid Digitalis. Comments on Brown’s work, Observations on the Organs and Mode of Fecundation in Orchideæ and Asclepiadeæ and says he is looking forward to fact checking it in the summer. Asks to visit Brown for another ‘lesson’.

Says he has not had time to examine mignonette specimen, hopes to do so soon and complete drawings. Sends some of the wood specimens being gathered for Cambridge Botanical Museum, largely from the plantations of his father in law, George Leonard Jenyns.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
25 March 1831
Source of text:
British Library Add. 32441: 138-39
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
23 January 1836
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
28 November 1842
Source of text:
JDH/1/2 f.35-36, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Robert Brown about places he has botanised during the [Antarctica] expedition. Mentions Madeira & Tenerife briefly. Describes St Jago flora as tropical vegetation in oases on sandy plains. Notes the Palma Christi bushes, a Anasnaceae[?], European vegetation in the Valley of San Domingo, a Lotus Campanala asphidium & an interesting Umbeliferous plant probably also in Christian Smith's collections. Arrived at Christmas Harbour, Kerguelen's Land in winter, 12 May [1840]. Describes the island, climate & the distribution of flora, noting: a water plant of genus Chara, Conferva, mosses, marsh grass sp. of Juncus, Halorageaceae & Portulacea. Also details distribution of fungi, lichens, Jungermannia, Musci, Filices, Graminea, Compositae, Portulacae, Umbellifera, Rubiaceae, Rosaceae, Caryophylleae, Ranunculaceae & an unknown Bulliarda. All plants are very hardy in the snow. Letter continues dated 28 Nov 1842 addressed from HMS 'Erebus', Berkeley Sound, East Falklands. JDH explains that the letter has been unfinished for 2 years as he was disappointed in the St Helena collections to go with it. He fears his 'out of season' collections from the Kerguelen, Auckland & Hermite Islands are inferior to those of King's ship, Darwin, D' Urville & Cook's naturalist Anderson. Sir John Franklin & Gunn asked after Brown. In Van Diemen's Land [Tasmania] & New Zealand JDH collected orchids for Brown incl. a Freycinetia. Discusses: Kerguelen Cabbage, Chilean Misidendron[?] from Hermite Island, British Museum plants from Macquarie & Royal Company's Islands. Describes geology of Emerald Island. Will send Brown Falklands plants. Expedition goes south to the ice then to Cape of Good Hope & Rio de Janeiro. JDH intends to focus on Cryptogammia. Mentions classification of Gunnera, article on fossil wood in TASMANIAN JOURNAL, the Macleay's garden & the loss of Menzies. Colenso will send Brown NZ fossil woods. Thanks Brown for proposing him at the Linnean Society & Athenaeum.

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Hooker Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
3 March 1846
Source of text:
BL add MS 32441, f.416
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
1 May 1846
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
18 April 1848
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/19
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
[15 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.312 & 23.249
Summary:

Regrets he has kept his theory on harmony so long; returns it and comments on various aspects.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
13 November 1903
Source of text:
National Library of Australia: MS1057/99
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Robert Brown
Date:
29 November 1903
Source of text:
National Library of Australia: MS1057/100
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project