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FVM-68-09-10c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 September 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 343
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-68-09-10d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Maxwell Masters
Date:
10 September 1868
Source of text:
Waller Ms gb-01920, Uppsala Universitetsbibliotek, UppsalaAnnotated ‘Dr F. Mueller | Melbourne’
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-68-09-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Ludwig von Golther
Date:
11 September 1868
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

SOMERVILLE4

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Joseph Barclay Pentland (?)
Date:
11 Sep 1868
Source of text:
MSA 1 / 212, Dep. c. 369, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-6362

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 148: 426b
Summary:

ARW’s wife will accompany him to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4644

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11] [September] [1868]
Source of text:
Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences . Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [p. 222]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel3104

From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 September 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.269
Summary:

Thanks for comments on AQ's Sur l'homme moyen. Translator of JH's work is too timid to allow himself to be known, but appreciates JH's compliments. Says practical statistics has progressed whereas philosophical statistics remains stationary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0610

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[12 September 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-6363

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 314
Summary:

BAAS Norwich meeting. Hooker [President] came out in great force. "Darwinismus" spread over the sections and crept into everything. CD will have rare happiness of seeing his ideas triumph during his life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6381F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
[13–21 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives
Summary:

Sends a page to be sent on to Charles William Nunn.

Offers sympathy for the illness of THH’s son, Henry (Harry) Huxley.

Wishes he could have attended the British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting at Norwich.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel990

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[14 September 1868]
Source of text:
JHS 6.47
Summary:

Is anxiously awaiting details of son John's observations of the solar eclipse in India; JH sends details of sunspots observed by JH on 18 Aug., and concludes with family news.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6364

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14 Sept 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 82: A25–6
Summary:

On sounds produced by Euchirus longimanus beetle. Sends a pair by post.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4085

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[14?] [September?] [1868?]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: DAR 82: A25-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6365

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
Date:
15 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London (LS Ms 299/4)
Summary:

Comments on THF’s MS [on fertilisation of scarlet runners]. Suggests publication, though CD anticipated main features ten years before. Is amused at the caution with which THF put his case that the final end [of the contrivances] was crossing distinct individuals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6366

From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Sept 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 165
Summary:

Sends essay by Karl Bettelheim.

Describes preparations for scientific journey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-68-09-15

From:
the Allgemeiner österreichische Apotheker Verein, Vienna
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 September 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M200b.48, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP1906

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 September [1868]
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 149-150
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 222-223]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6367

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gustavus Detlef Hinrichs
Date:
16 Sept 1868
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Illinois History and Lincoln Collections (Hinrichs Papers, IHLC MS 712, Box 5)
Summary:

Acknowledges letter of 31 August and various works. Regrets he is unable to help GH with his works but will seek to interest Tyndall. Discourages GH on prospect of publication of his new book in England.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.190–191)
Summary:

B. D. Walsh has not received his copy of Variation. Several other foreign correspondents have similar complaints.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6368

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
16 Sept [1868]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434: 149–50)
Summary:

CD’s oscillating views relating to protection and sexual selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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