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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[summer 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 274
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
June 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 78
Summary:
He is not grieved at CD’s omissions of his [JDH’s] work [from Origin, 4th ed.]. It proves nothing – claims only to be illustration of using CD’s methods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Francis Adams Sr.
Date:
2 June 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.1, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Alphonse de Candolle
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 12
Summary:
In London for the Botanical Congress; regrets missing CD.
Lyell and CD have mistaken H. Lecoq’s position on glaciers. He has not denied the possibility of a glacial period, only that decreased temperature is needed for their extension.
Recommends F. J. Ruprecht on vegetable detritus in the black earth chernozem of Russia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, G. H.
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[3 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 2240
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
3 June 1866
Source of text:
MS papers 37, no 561, folder 207, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John F. South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 June 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.40
Summary:
Thanks JH for his kind letter [see JH's 1866-5-31]. James South has heard that his godson, William James Herschel, has returned from India. Could JH visit? [A greeting is appended by James South.]
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 18
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Frederick Levick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.477
Summary:
Has seen JH's letter regarding the use of compressed air for working machinery in deep mines. Encloses two papers on the subject by one of his sons. Comments on the use FL has made of compressed air in his mines.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[4 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 291
Summary:
Thanks for Asa Gray’s letter, enclosed.
Knew JDH would not care about omissions but was vexed at his own forgetfulness.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[5 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 44
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner
Date:
5 June [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 150
Summary:
Thanks for WT’s papers, especially ["The present aspect of the doctrine of cellular pathology", Edinburgh Med. J. 8 (1863): 873–97].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 167
Summary:
Sends blooms of Cytisus purpureus-elongatus.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
8 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 219.10: 19
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
8 June [1866]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 63)
Summary:
Examined the Cytisus and forwarded to Caspary. The C. adami case "gets more and more perplexing", asks for report if Cytisus purpureus-elongatus produces any pods.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1866
Source of text:
DAR 173: 32
Summary:
Identifies a plant.
CD will not find Hermann Schacht’s Lehrbuch [der Anatomie und Physiologie der Gewächse (1856–9)] at the Linnean Society Library.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Wilhelm I, King of Prussia
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
9 June 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M200a.36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
William Hawes
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
9 June 1866
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 9 June 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 109: A81; DAR 111: B45, B48b, B48c
Summary:
Data on good and bad pollen-grain yields of different species. Sends sketches of two male Rhamnus catharticus flowers [see Forms of flowers, p. 294].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project