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FVM-66-12-25d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 247-8
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-12-25c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 December 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Zoology Library, John Gould. Australian collection, Zoology Library MSS Gou B. Mueller, Ferdinand, (Cassowary)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5324

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 127–8
Summary:

Analysis of New Zealand flora; proportion of indigenous annuals.

Uniform climates are poor in species.

Evergreen and deciduous vegetation: relationship to flora and fauna.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5325

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 287
Summary:

Discusses the South American mission.

Has been busy digging out fossil leaves from local Eocene deposits.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6513

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Victor Carus
Date:
26 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 57–58)
Summary:

Requests a change in text [of ch. 12 of Origin: "Geographical distribution"] owing to recent observations of Albert Günther on the marine faunas of the eastern and western shores of South and Central America.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-66-12-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
26 December 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 249
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-12-27a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Balfour
Date:
27 December 1866
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, J. H. Balfour correspondence, vol. X, f. 271
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-12-27b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John Hampton
Date:
27 December 1866
Source of text:
Colonial Secretary's Office, subject index, settlers received,1854-78, no. 394/2349, State Records of Western Australia, Perth
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Faraday4594

From:
Jane Barnard
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
27 December 1866
Source of text:
RI MS F1 L/3/16
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12652

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Mary Baldwin
Date:
[27 December 1866]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0072; Reel 1054
Summary:

Returns letter of George Bryandt. Dispute over auction of property belonging to MB's late brother [Thomas], of whose will JH is executor.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-66-12-27

From:
William Skiress
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
27 December 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5327

From:
Lydia Ernestine Becker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 114
Summary:

Thanks for "Climbing plants" and other papers [as requested in 5316].

Sends specimens of a variety of Primula not mentioned by CD [in Primula paper, Collected papers 2: 45–63?].

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DCP-LETT-5326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 310, 310b
Summary:

B. J. Sulivan offers fossil leaves from Eocene beds at Bournemouth to CD or JDH. Does JDH want them, or should they go to Oswald Heer?

Has written to Athenæum [see 5308] about publishers cutting pages of their books.

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DCP-LETT-5328

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 102: 129–30
Summary:

Suggests fossil leaves go to Heer.

Agrees with CD on cut pages in books.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-66-12-31a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Joseph Hooker]
Date:
31 December 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 250-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-12-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Hermann Helmholtz
Date:
31 December 1866
Source of text:
Nachlass Helmholtz, Nr 316, Akademiearchiv, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-66-12-31b

From:
George Bennett
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
31 December 1866
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Owen Correspondence, vol. 3, letter number 329.A version of this letter was published in Bulletin of the Post-Graduate Committee in Medicine, University of Sydney, vol. 11, no. 9, December 1955, pp. 263-4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-5331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
31 Dec 1866 and 1 Jan 1867
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 11)
Summary:

Thanks for observations on dimorphic plants. Dimorphism prevalent in certain groups throughout the world.

Retarded fertilisation in certain orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5329

From:
John William Salter
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 177: 12
Summary:

JWS is seeking financial help. He is in debt and struggling and wonders if there is any paid service he might perform for CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
31 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks BJS for his account of S. America and the Fuegians.

Can BJS ask W. H. Stirling to make observations on expression?

Has asked Hooker about the fossil leaves, and he suggests they be sent to Oswald Heer.

Has just sent MS on domestic animals [Variation] to the printer.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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