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FVM-71-01-03b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Redmond Barry
Date:
3 January 1871
Source of text:
VPRS 5834/P0/1, inward correspondence p. 113, VA 1411 Industrial and Technological Museum, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7426

From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[before 4 Jan 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 49
Summary:

Will observe old furrowed fields for CD in the early spring. Suggests locations in Scotland and Rugby with ridge and furrowing in old pastures.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1118

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
4 [January 1871?]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-7427

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
4 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London (GB 0814 BADD (Darwin))
Summary:

Is infinitely obliged for a correction. "You men who do only or chiefly original work have an immense advantage over compilers like myself, as you can know what to trust." Wishes he had consulted PLS before using A. E. Brehm’s Thierleben woodcuts [for Descent]. PLS’s assistance has saved him from "endless blunders"; he now feels safe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7428

From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 50
Summary:

Depth of furrows in old field.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-01-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Joseph Hooker]
Date:
5 January 1871
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel6404

From:
Julia Margaret Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.169
Summary:

Is grateful for the interest he takes in her son and for his letter. Comments on the German war. Has a house full of visitors. It has been very cold and they have been without water.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7429

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Jan [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 89: 170–1
Summary:

On sexual selection and the sense of beauty among the W. African Negroes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3013

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 January 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 67-68
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7430

From:
Federico Delpino
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 111: A77–8
Summary:

Sends his new work, Ulteriori osservazioni sulla dicogomia pt 2, fasc. 1.

Has found no nectar in Orchis morio or O. maculata in Italy and has seen no insects visiting the plants.

Gives his observations on cross- and self-fertilisation in cereals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7431

From:
Alexander F. Boardman
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 160: 230
Summary:

More speculations [see 5811] on the evolutionary development of man, relating progress to the consumption of better food and the availability of moist air.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC152

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 January 1871
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.33-34, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for sending him some apples. He & Mr Smith compare the variety sent, the 'Northern Spy', to English apples including the 'Ribstone Pippen' & the 'Nonsuch'. Discusses his work on the Rubiaceae family including the genera: Psychotria, Cephaelis, Nonateleiae[?], Rudgea ,Palicourea, Chasalia & Grumilea. Next he will work on Borreroids, including Hedyotoids. George Bentham is working on Compositae, currently struggling with Gnaphalia. JDH's wife, Frances Hooker, has finished translating Decaisne & Maout & Hooker himself did some work on the introduction. [John Gilbert] Baker is working on Monocots. [Thomas] Thomson is neglecting his work on the FLORA INDICA & there are problems with the printing & the length. JDH intends to take over editorship & organize it into a shorter manual with the different orders contributed by expert authors. JDH's mother, Lady Maria Hooker, is ill in Torquay but recovering. JDH thanks Gray for Cytinus, Apodanthes, a paper on Galax & his attention to Rubiaceae. JDH must put off his trip to California, he worries he is getting too old but takes comfort that Sir H. Holland just went over the Blue mountains of Jamaica aged over 80. Murchison has Hemiplegia & has resigned himself to death, his likely successor as President of the Geographical Society is Sir H. Rawlinson. Letter appears incomplete & is unsigned but is written in the hand of Joseph Dalton Hooker.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

Herschel4075

From:
Daniel Vaughan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.460
Summary:

Sends an abstract of his research entitled 'The Effects of Tide on Planetary Motion.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7432

From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 105: A23–4
Summary:

Definite results have been delayed, but he is optimistic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4032

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Alfred Newton
Date:
9 January 1871
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library: Add. 9839/1W/95
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7433

From:
Francis (Frank) Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 181: 51
Summary:

Appearance and depth of furrows in old field.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7435

From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 87: 140
Summary:

Sends quotation about Lycurgus and Spartan exposure of infants who were deemed defective.

Bibliographic references on sense of beauty and morals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel7295

From:
Charles Davies
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 January 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.474
Summary:

Has sent a work on the metric system in France, which includes JH's own valuable lecture.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7436

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Jan 1871
Source of text:
DAR 171: 383
Summary:

Sends title-page of Descent for approval. Asks whether CD has any idea of size of index.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-71-01-11

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Samuel Whitmee
Date:
11 January 1871
Source of text:
Archives of the Council for World Mission (incorp. London Missionary Society), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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