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FVM-65-12-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Nevil Maskelyne
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives, DF3/1/ folder 2, Cranbourne, Australia 1861-1936
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP7232

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Annie Wallace (née Mitten)
Date:
25 December 1865
Source of text:
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4956

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
26 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:

Has been ill since April, so has not read all of JvH’s papers.

Encloses his photograph.

Has written to support JvH for Royal Society.

Samuel Butler [returned from New Zealand] is now established in London as an artist.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4957

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Dec [1865]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 210
Summary:

Sends a tin full of Ophrys by his brother, who should take about 60 hours to reach Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4958

From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec 1865
Source of text:
DAR 161: 233
Summary:

Sending cheque for Down parish charities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8949

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[28 December 1865]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 10 (Jan. 5, 1866), 5-6 & American Journal of Photography, n.s
Summary:

Discusses recent progress in color photography. Stresses that what is most needed is a way of making negatives from which colored positives can be produced. Recounts JH's recent experiments relating to the action of light on solutions of platinum.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10978

From:
William Stanley Jevons
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 December 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.323
Summary:

Encloses a note he has received from Macmillan (publishers). Would be grateful if JH could spare the time to write a short notice of the work as he feels an obligation towards Macmillan for publishing his work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13492

From:
[J. Gomez Banley?]
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 December 1865]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0725.1; Reel 1089
Summary:

Thanks for gift of JH's Catalog to library of [?] observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4288

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
E. Sheldon and Co.
Date:
[30 December 1865]
Source of text:
Harvard: Houghton AAH 67m-67 (62)
Summary:

Acknowledges receiving a shipment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4959

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Dec 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 279
Summary:

Will explain about the so-called hybrids of Lythrum when they meet.

JDH should not be proposed for Copley Medal this year because Royal Society Council has so few naturalists on it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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