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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
26 April [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
William Robert Grove
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 230
Summary:

Sorry he missed CD when he called. Suggests a time he can call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robert Grove
Date:
[26 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS GR/1a/99)
Summary:

Makes arrangements to call.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Wilde
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
26 April 1866
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.294
Summary:

Regarding the documents for the Standards Commission.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
27 Apr [1866]
Source of text:
Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997)
Summary:

Asks for racemes of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus and C. adami for comparison, because Robert Caspary argues that C. adami is not a common hybrid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[28 April 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 287
Summary:

Needs Annales de la Société d’horticulture de Paris 7 (1830).

Asks that Oliver provide a reference for microscopical appearance and structure of a bud.

Was very well on first part of London visit.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 60
Summary:

Orchids.

Lyell has written to JDH about coal-plants of Melville Island.

Has glanced at first edition of Principles and has no doubt that Lyell meant the whole globe was cooler when land was massed at poles. JDH doubts this.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Turner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 28 Apr 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 197
Summary:

Observations on a bird that used a stone to break open a snail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
[29 Apr 1866]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/25)
Summary:

Is sorry to have missed seeing WR.

Mentions some crossing experiments with Nymphaea and Euryale in which he would be interested, if WR ever had the chance to make them [see Cross and self-fertilisation, p. 365].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[29 April 1866]
Source of text:
RGO 6.359.247
Summary:

Avails himself of GA's offer of assistance to obtain information [see GA's 1866-4-27].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[29 April 1866]
Source of text:
BostonPubLib Ms. Eng. 204
Summary:

Please thank Dr. Gardner for his 'Calendar for the Correction of Dates.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
30 April [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 42
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
M[arion] S[haw] Bell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 April 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.46
Summary:

Is grateful for MB'S Ode to Sensibility. Regarding the Lords of the Level.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project