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FVM-58-06-08

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
8 June 1858
Source of text:
E58/5093, unit 745, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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HENSLOW-1119

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
T. C. Eyton
Date:
8 June 1858
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library B EY83
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2282

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
8 [June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 237
Summary:

Pleased with JDH’s reaction to MS on large and small genera.

Confident of soundness of principle of divergence.

CD experimenting on pollination mechanism of Leguminosae. Asks JDH to investigate Fumariaceae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel9574

From:
James David Forbes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.315
Summary:

Article on glaciers is from the Encyclopaedia Britannica and was restricted because of space. Mistakes by John Tyndall and others have arisen because his own Letters on Glaciers has been overlooked. William Whewell is to be married.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2281

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
8 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses bees’ cells. Wants hive and swarm; would be glad to have WBT’s box with commenced cells. "I am partly a disciple of Waterhouse, but not wholly."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2283A

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 June 1858]
Source of text:
DAR 162: 48c
Summary:

Sends a model of bee cells "as bad as a Chinese puzzle". [A series of paper cut-out figures.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2283F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 June 1858
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £242 11s. 10d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3451

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Zephaniah Bell
Date:
9 June 1858
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14417

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 June 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0525.6; Reel 1093
Summary:

Will leave London for several weeks when ES's wife is well. Alexander von Humboldt is pleased with English translation of Cosmos. Preparations for magnetic research in Australia, Bavaria, [British] Guiana, and Mauritius. [JH annotation: Routing list to G. B. Airy, George Peacock, and William Whewell.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-58-06-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
10 June 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 180
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2284

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 June 1858
Source of text:
DAR 170: 21
Summary:

Thanks for queen-bee larva and pupa.

Nervous system of Coccus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3452

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Cole
Date:
10 June 1858
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-7815

From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June [1858]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 194
Summary:

Discusses instinct in ducks and turkeys.

Reports a case of the inheritance of an acquired characteristic in a pig.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-58-06-11

From:
Ludwig Becker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 June 1858
Source of text:
EFOL L3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1812

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 June 1858]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0638.7 (C: RGO 6.694.499)
Summary:

If magnetic observation stations are to be set up and staffed, then personnel should be considered soon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-58-06-14

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
14 June 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, letter no. 181
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-58-06-15c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
15 June 1858
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-58-06-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 June 1858
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-58-06-15b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Moore
Date:
15 June 1858
Source of text:
E58/5370, unit 745, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-58-06-15a

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 June 1858
Source of text:
F, no. 1300, unit 3, p. 76, VPRS 1187 outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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