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FVM-66-11-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Manners-Sutton
Date:
23 November 1866
Source of text:
Unit 21, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria.For a copy of this letter see National Archives, London, CO 309/80, original correspondence, Victoria, despatches, 1866, September to December, enclosure to despatch no. 39, pp. 321-2
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-11-23a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Manners-Sutton
Date:
23 November 1866
Source of text:
Unit 21, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copy at National Archives, London, CO 309/80, Victoria, original correspondence, Despatches September to December, 1866, f. 308 (enclosure 1 to no. 38, 17 Dec 1866). A copy was sent from the Colonial Office to the Royal Geographical Society, London, on 27 February 1867
Summary:

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5284

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[23 Nov 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 306
Summary:

Will visit Kew on Tuesday [27 Nov].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE537

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
23 Nov 1866
Source of text:
154, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-7512F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
[23 Nov 1866?]
Source of text:
Alexander Historical Auctions (dealers) (29 April 2000)
Summary:

Will call on Wallace tomorrow (Saturday) at 10.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-66-11-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
24 November 1866
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5284A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Shaw
Date:
24 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (1986)
Summary:

Has seen the Athenæum and admires his article on beauty ["Feeling of beauty among animals", Athenæum (24 Nov. 1866): 681].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6806

From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.123
Summary:

Is grateful for his prompt reply about the catalogue of double stars. His own paper will run to some 250 pages. Otto Struve has offered to send him the observations of some of the stars he is interested in.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2797F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Anne Heathorn; Henrietta Anne Huxley
Date:
[before 25 Nov 1866?]
Source of text:
Janet Huxley (private collection)
Summary:

Asks if he may call on Sunday at 10 o’clock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4593

From:
Jane Barnard
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
25 November 1866
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/3/15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel2028

From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.59
Summary:

Thanks JH for his lectures [Familiar Lectures] and praises his style. Has encouraged Clarendon Press to ask JH to write a short treatise on inductive logic.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9693

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert A. T. Gascoyne-Cecil
Date:
[26 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.177
Summary:

Comments on a multi-volume work on India by the Schlaginweits [Hermann and Robert], suggesting that the work contains much extraneous computation and detail and should be compressed. Questions whether further publication on the present scale is justified.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1179

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
26 November 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.143, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP2542

From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
26 November 1866
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 6-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-66-11-27c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl von Martius
Date:
27 November 1866
Source of text:
Martiusiana, II, A, 2, Handschriften-Abteilung, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-11-27a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 November 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-1870, f. 245
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-11-27

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
27 November 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-1870, f. 244
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel2179

From:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.424
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of JH's letter and fungi spore specimens. The letter was read and specimens exhibited at last meeting. Offers thanks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8391

From:
J. Park Harrison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.276
Summary:

Notes regular maxima and minima in 50-year temperature curves. Offers theory relating these to phases of moon. Compares it to J. H. Mädler's theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5286

From:
Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 41
Summary:

Writing for Mr Corbet, she asks what diet has helped in the treatment of CD’s illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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