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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[George Bentham]
Date:
May 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70, f. 17
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
May 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 213
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1866-5 or later]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.3
Summary:
Sends children's book to JH. Believes JH, who reads German, will understand Swedish.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
2 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 245: 270
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
2 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1517
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Francis Diedrich Wackerbarth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.2
Summary:
Grateful to learn that [collection of William Herschel's works] is being addressed.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Emily Hardcastle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.156
Summary:
Found the enclosed in a bookseller's shop, found it amusing, and sends it to JH to explain the mystery.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
3 May [1866]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (tipped into General Special Collections MSS HUN/49)
Summary:
Encloses a sketch of the principal events in his life [for RH’s memoir on CD in Walford, ed., Portraits of men of eminence (1863–7)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 May 1866
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.295
Summary:
Is sending a packet of seven papers on metrical and decimal systems.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Emily Hardcastle
Date:
[4 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.154
Summary:
Comments on EH's 'Magic pictures', which JH said he produced and described in a paper twenty-six years earlier; JH is however unable to explain the process chemically.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
5 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 10
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Francis Julius (Julius) von Haast
Date:
5 May [1866]
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Haast family papers, MS-Papers-0037-051-3)
Summary:
Regrets that JvH is not on list of candidates for Royal Society. This year the Council of Royal Society is extraordinarily deficient in natural historians and geologists. Thinks JvH is sure to be elected another year.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
5 May 1866
Source of text:
RI MS F1 G9
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Robinson
Date:
5 May [1866]
Source of text:
Royal Horticultural Society, Lindley Library (WRO/2/26)
Summary:
Writes a line of thanks; includes instructions on procedure for crossing experiments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 120
Summary:
Thanks CD for invitation. Solicitous of CD’s health. Will let Hooker decide whether CD’s health will allow his visit.
[Alexander] Braun in poor health.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 165: 150
Summary:
Thinks a new U. S. edition of Origin is needed.
Gives observations on the climbing habits of Bignonia capreolata.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Frances Mary (Mary) Turton; Frances Mary (Mary) Lubbock
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
[8 May 1866 – 31 Aug 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 19
Summary:
Age at which babies first shed tears.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 May [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 76: B52, 66–72
Summary:
Describes the floral structure of broom, particularly the form of the varying anthers. Encloses drawings of anthers and pollen.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 May 1866
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, p.4160
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project