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FVM-59-01-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
January 1859
Source of text:
K59/188, unit 747, 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

JHC1427

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
--1859?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.226, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1433

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.230, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

A letter from Joseph Hooker to Miles Berkeley suggesting that Berkeley may wish to undertake a paid project to name a series of illustrations of fungi in the collection of Mady Orde of Kilmony. Enquires how ‘Willy’ - William Hooker is getting on and send a cheque to cover his schooling and board. Mentions that renovation work it taking place at Kew residence and that William Hooker has been unwell.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1434

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1859?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.231, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Letter to Miles Berkeley from Joseph Hooker proposing sending Hooker's eldest son (William Henslow) to Berkeley for 3 months tutoring.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1435

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
?-?-1859?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.232, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

Joseph Hooker writes to Miles Berkeley regarding the death of Lord Westmoreland and that Hooker's family remains at Hitcham Rectory whilst Joseph is at Kew. Mentions that his eldest son, William has fond memories of Berkeley and his family and that the Hooker's are not sure where to send William after the Christmas period.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC1175

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1859?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.139, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC141

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
6 January 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.14-15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH hopes Asa Gray continues his U.S. EXPLORING EXPEDITION publication. JDH is studying the flora of Fiji, Tahiti & the Sandwich Islands [Hawaii] & working on a preliminary essay to FLORA TASMANIAE. He is trying to trace the extent of Australian flora in the Pacific: it goes as far as New Zealand, Norfolk Islands, New Caledonia & the New Hebrides [Vanuatu] but no further, the flora of Fiji is more Indian. Possibly the explanation lies in differing geology. He thinks that an ancient Southern Continent must be the origin of the Australian flora & explanation for there being South African types in South West Australia & Polynesian species on the East coast of the continent. Discusses evidence of type persistence in Australia: Miocene era Banksia ericifolia preserved in lava beds in Victoria, & fossil Casuarina cones from Bass Straits. However, he also has an Araucaria excelsa cone from oolite in England. He concludes that geographical ranges have changed & the old theory of absolute creation is disproved & he will work to more modern hypotheses [Darwin's natural selection] without accepting them as doctrine. It must be accepted that the formation of land & sea has changed as agents of migration such as animals, wind & currents cannot account for current species distribution. He lists his five starting hypotheses to explain distribution of species, including the evolution of new species by selection & effects of land movement. Also, enumerates how this agrees with the expected fact of evolution of species from an aboriginal condition, including the existence of greater numbers of distinct species on remote islands & the great biodiversity of the southern temperate zone considering there is so little land compared to the North. JDH wrote these thoughts at Lord Wrottesley's, he has now returned to Kew & paid Thomson's[?] debt to [William Henry?] Harvey. JDH is shocked by Alphonse de Candolle begging to be made a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Society. [Letter incomplete]

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Hooker Project
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FVM-59-01-08a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
8 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/183, unit 747, 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

JHC1425

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
9 January 1859
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.224, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-59-01-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
10 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/185, unit 747, 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-59-01-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
11 January 1859
Source of text:
J59/200, unit 747, 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-59-01-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edmund FitzGibbon
Date:
13 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 34, unit 822, VPRS 3181 Town Clerk's files, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-01-14b

From:
Edmund FitzGibbon
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 29, unit 4, p. 738, VPRS 4025 Town Clerk's letter press copy books, VA 511 Melbourne, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-01-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
14 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/309, unit 747, 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-59-01-14c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
14 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/310, unit 747, 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-59-01-15a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
15 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 173, unit 95, VPRS 3253 original papers, VA 2585 Legislative Assembly, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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FVM-59-01-15

From:
W. H. Rollisson & Sons
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/2684, unit 746, 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-59-01-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
19 January 1859
Source of text:
J59/345, unit 747, 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-59-01-24

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 134, unit 4, p. 34, VPRS 1187 outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-01-26

From:
John Moore
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 January 1859
Source of text:
No. 139, unit 4, p. 35, VPRS 1187 outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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