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From:
James Brooke
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 January 1866
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 f. 14-15
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
21 [Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 281
Summary:
Has found Verlot.
His sister [Emily Catherine Langton] is dying [d. 2 Feb 1866].
His stomach still very bad. Writes one or two hours and reads a little.
JDH is a wretch to remind CD of his coal-plant prophecy.
Glad JDH will give Nottingham lecture.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 January 1866
Source of text:
- British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 61-62
- Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 166-168]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Jan [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 71
Summary:
Discusses pigeon and poultry woodcuts [for Variation].
WBT’s poultry book is at last in the hands of a solvent publisher [The poultry book (1867)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 Jan 1866
Source of text:
The British Library (Add 46434, f. 61)
Summary:
Welcomes ARW’s paper on pigeons ["On the pigeons of the Malay Archipelago", Ibis 1 (1865): 365–400].
Influence of monkeys on distribution of pigeons and parrots.
Asks ARW to explain a passage in his paper on Malayan Papilionidae [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 25 (1866): 1–71] on how dimorphic forms are produced. CD knows of varieties "that will not blend or intermix", but which produce offspring quite like either parent.
ARW’s remarks on geographical distribution in Celebes "will give a cold shudder to the immutable naturalists".
Presses ARW to work on his travel journal.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 55–6
Summary:
Sorrow about Mrs Langton. Has been haunted by death these six or eight years. Now cannot bear to look at children asleep in bed – a sight he once thought the loveliest thing in creation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 January 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 191-2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Frederick McCoy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 January 1866
Source of text:
Director’s letterbooks, MVS 2/1 3, f. 66, Melbourne Museum.My dear Dr Mueller
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Richard Spruce
To:
Daniel Hanbury
Date:
24 January 1866
Source of text:
Royal Pharmaceutical Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 24 Jan 1866]
Source of text:
DAR 178: 70
Summary:
Thanks for the remittance.
Both WBT and Mr Zurhorst will repeat Zurhorst’s experiment to eliminate any chance of error.
Edward Blyth is writing on Indian cattle for the Field [27 (1866): 55–6, 77].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
B. W. S. Vallack
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.416
Summary:
Thanks JH for corrections to the mirrors of his telescope. Says the telescope finally gives 'a satisfactory view of Saturn.' Discusses the lenses for BV's binocular telescope. Thinks photography could benefit from binocular vision.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 January 1866
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 193-4
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
26 January 1866
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes’ Verlag, Gotha
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Carl von Martius
Date:
26 January 1866
Source of text:
Martiusiana, II, A, 2, Handschriften-Abteilung, Bayerische Staatsbibiliothek, Munich
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Johan Areschoug
Date:
26 January 1866
Source of text:
J. E. Areschoug brefsamling, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien, Stockholm
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ludwig II, King of Bavaria
Date:
26 January 1866
Source of text:
BayHStA, Adelsmatrikel, Ritter M7, Bayerisches Haupstaatsarchiv, Munich
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Gilbert Baker
Date:
26 January 1866
Source of text:
BAK/1 f.99, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William E. H. Lecky
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.467
Summary:
Has just written to Longman's to say how pleased he will be if Miss Kerth translates his book into French. Regrets delay, but has been travelling in Italy.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Jan 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 42
Summary:
Discusses exchange of photographs with German scientists.
Comments on attitudes of German scientists toward CD’s theory.
Names several scientists who exchanged photographs: Braun, Virchow, Leydig, and Dohrn.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 January 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.162
Summary:
Sending some of her photographs. Has won medals for her efforts but would like JH's opinion so it can be quoted. Has been very busy with photographic work. Her son has gone to Ceylon and she now has no children in the house.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project