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FVM-M66-12-00

From:
Godfrey Howitt and others
To:
Henry Manners-Sutton
Date:
December 1866
Source of text:
M67/17, unit 21, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5288

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Dec 1866?]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 120
Summary:

Asks CD to send W. R. Grove titles and place of publication of the Müller [Für Darwin (1864)] and Walsh (Walsh 1864–5) papers he referred to in his address [BAAS lecture at Nottingham, see 5135].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean-Baptiste-Édouard (Édouard) Bornet
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Muséum national d’histoire naturelle, Bibliothèque de Botanique, Paris (Ms CRY 501, fol. 387)
Summary:

Thanks JBEB for Papaver seeds. Has long wished to see some of the closely allied subspecies and hopes to make some crossing experiments with them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0688

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1 December 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-5021F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 25)
Summary:

William asks what to do about a complication in settling Aunt Catherine’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5291

From:
Daniel Hanbury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 93
Summary:

Wishes to consult Fritz Müller on pharmacological matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11895

From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.257
Summary:

Sends proof sheet on the mathematics of representation. Intends to print in full JH's letter to Mrs. Drummond. Has not yet received information regarding the measuring bars as T. A. Larcom is busy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
1 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.322)
Summary:

Thanks CL for copy of his "grand book" [Principles of geology, 10th ed., vol. 1 (1867)]. Congratulates him on additions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Caldwell; Anne Marsh; Anne Marsh-Caldwell
Date:
1 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.323)
Summary:

Mentions visit to E. A. Darwin.

Encloses note for Mr Corbet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5292A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1866
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21, 2: 99–102.
Summary:

Gives observations on orchid ovules ripening long after blooming.

Infertility with own pollen sometimes does and sometimes does not indicate dimorphism; gives observations on Ximenia, Eschscholtzia and Oncidium flexuosum.

Describes some striking seeds eaten by birds,

and some new dimorphic species.

Variation in Thillia.

Confirms CD’s suspicion that the lancet-fish [Amphioxus] lives in competition with invertebrates: it shares its habitat with a similar-looking Ophelia, which is quite unlike other annelids, just as the lancet-fish is unlike other fishes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-66-12-01

From:
the Königliche Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften, Göttingen
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 December 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.15, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP1456

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
1 December 1866
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/256
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 f. 12
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 2. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 188]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel1601

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.282 (C: Cambridge University Library 7656/RS552)
Summary:

Informs JH that his comments against sending a major telescope to India were decisive [see JH's 1866-8-11 & 1866-9-4]; biggest cost impediment was salary of observer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel14184

From:
Bartholomew Price
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0410; Reel 1087
Summary:

Supports G. W. Kitchin's request that JH write treatise on inductive logic for benefit of Oxford students.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5294

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 114–17
Summary:

Lyell’s volume [Principles, 10th ed.] received.

"We must now keep him straight anent origin and development."

Some of Spencer’s new part is interesting but much is dull and ponderous.

Huxley’s Elementary physiology [1866].

Has finished his New Zealand manual [Handbook of New Zealand flora (1864–7)]. New Zealand flora [and past geological conditions] suggest islands were once connected.

Speculates on the total amount of living organised matter on the globe, and whether it varies.

Balfour Stewart on sunspots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1514

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[4 December 1866]
Source of text:
APS B.D25.L.18 (C: RS:HS 24.178)
Summary:

Appreciates the receipt of volume one of the tenth edition of CL's Principles of Geology.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is tempted to cite Mr Zurhorst’s case.

Hopes to send pigeon and fowl MS [of Variation] to press in a fortnight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 307
Summary:

Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.

Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE538

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Dec 1866
Source of text:
156, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel3473

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[5 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS Sa.675 (C RS:HS 15.283 & RS:HS 24.179)
Summary:

Maintains that a first class refractor is not needed at Masouri in India [see ES's 1866-9-4]. No special characteristics there justify the great expense of such a project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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