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From:
John Dallachy
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
November 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M75, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
P. O'Callaghan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.161
Summary:
This town and surrounding area were visited by an earthquake on Friday night. Gives time and details. Alexander Herschel is to give a lecture at Leamington in the ensuing season.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 164: 48
Summary:
The conversion of Asa Gray must be a pleasure.
CD’s doctrine accounts for and gives a vera causa of structures.
Discusses F. Hildebrand’s book.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 65
Summary:
Would like to borrow CD’s carriage on polling day.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 171: 78
Summary:
After examining a basket of piebald potatoes he does believe them to be a graft-hybrid as Friedrich Hildebrand might suggest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George A. MacFarren
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.12
Summary:
Has read with great interest JH's paper on the musical scales. Comments on JH's paper and expounds some of his own theories on the musical scales. Would like JH's comments on his paper.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Pritchard
Date:
[3 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.103
Summary:
Solar spectrum observations of John Herschel (son of JH) may have produced detection of the photosphere and corona at a time other than a total solar eclipse.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 Nov 1868
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 150)
Summary:
Much interested in WDF’s letter on inheritance and courtship of birds. CD "in a great muddle" on many points.
Asks for further information on proportion of sexes in sheep.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Nov 1868
Source of text:
DAR 166: 210
Summary:
Potato graft-hybrid fails to give potatoes.
August Weismann requests Wallace’s address to find out about experiments on butterflies hinted at in Variation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
4 November 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.276, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William C. Mathison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
4 November [1868?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.28
Summary:
Accept his best thanks for JH's paper on musical scales. It seems to dispose of the whole matter in the most satisfactory manner. Hopes his own pupil is well.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Alexander Strahan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.244
Summary:
Regrets that JH declines offer [see AS's 1868-10-30] to publish series of papers in Good Words. Hopes JH will nevertheless occasionally send short papers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Friedrich Wöhler
Date:
5 November 1868
Source of text:
Sammlung Wachs, Nr 407, Akademiearchiv, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Thomas Rawlings
Date:
5 November 1868
Source of text:
MS 11663 Royal Society of Victoria records, box 2/2, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
S. Langley
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.98
Summary:
Can he publish JH's statement regarding John Lubbock? Outlines the wishes of other scientists regarding the printing of their views.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
6 November 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 350-1
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online
From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 November 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-1870, ff. 349
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Frederick W. Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.425
Summary:
Had no time to write before he sailed [see FH's 1868-10-23, which is similar in content]; forward letters to the Ordnance Office, Southampton.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 November 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.71
Summary:
Questions about JH's report on a paper; is sending on copies of JH's son John's papers.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Nov [1868]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 66
Summary:
Arrangements for polling.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project