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DCP-LETT-2177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.

Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.

Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2177F

From:
James Buckman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 2 January 1858, p. 11
Summary:

Discusses the relative growth of native and foreign weeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8402

From:
Mary H. Lubbock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857-12
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.287
Summary:

Preparing for wedding. Thanks JH for present. Happy that JH's daughter 'Lou' [Margaret Louisa Herschel?] will be bridesmaid.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-12-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick McCoy
Date:
2 December 1857
Source of text:
Archive box 00323, Melbourne Museum, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2178

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 178–9
Summary:

News of Mrs Henslow’s death.

Studying Impatiens, which bears on CD’s problems. Though genus is endemic to India, with over 100 species, CD will be glad to know they do not run into one another.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3361

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Twining
Date:
2 December 1857
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2179

From:
Richard Bishop
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
3 Dec 1857
Source of text:
DAR 160: 189
Summary:

Gives observations to be forwarded to CD of impregnation in Balanus.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4441

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
[3 December 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.214
Summary:

Makes suggestion on freeing the Leviathan from its trapped position.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-12-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julian Tenison Woods
Date:
4 December 1857
Source of text:
Archives, Sisters of St Joseph, Perthville, NSW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2180

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
4 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 216
Summary:

Inquiries on effect of dry heat on temperate plants for glacial chapter.

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Faraday3362

From:
William Arthur Slade
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
4 December 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday3362a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Sopwith
Date:
5 December 1857
Source of text:
RI MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-2181

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[6 Dec 1857]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 195–6, DAR 47: 192
Summary:

Finds CD’s results [of his survey of well-marked varieties from A. P. and Alphonse de Candolle’s Prodromus systematis naturalis regni vegetabilis (1824–73)] "very curious and suggestive". Thinks the Labiatae will present an obstacle to him as it is a very large and distinct order with well-defined species and genera. Would like to see him tackle more volumes of Candolle’s Prodromus, as his case can only be established by evidence from mundane plants. CD should beware of generalising from local species variability. A comparison of C. C. Babington’s and G. Bentham’s [British] Floras [Babington Manual of British botany (1843, 4th ed., 1856); Bentham Handbook of British flora (1858)] would be invaluable. Suggests CD write to Ferdinand Müller and Charles Moore in Australia. Moisture favouring extension of species is important for CD’s view.

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FVM-57-12-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Augustus Gregory
Date:
7 December 1857
Source of text:
Ag 34/8 Gregory papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel12454

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 December 1857]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.310
Summary:

Family news and comments on some of JH's writings.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-57-12-08

From:
Charles Darwin
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
8 December 1857
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library, DAR 92, 31-2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

SOMERVILLE520

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
8 Dec 1857
Source of text:
122, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-2378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ferdinand Jakob Heinrich (Ferdinand) von Mueller
Date:
8 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 92: A31–2
Summary:

Asks whether British or north European perennial plants can, under cultivation, withstand the climate of S. Australia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1461

From:
Rudolf Clausius
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 Dec. 1857
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/7/2226-30, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2181F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 Dec 1857
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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