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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 40
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-1881, ff. 41-42
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 61
Summary:
His book has received bad reviews; therefore CD’s letter cheers him up.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 177
Summary:
Will himself correct the details on the woodblock CD finds acceptable. The second one followed CD’s instructions, contrary to his own experience.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Davis Cooper
Date:
21 May 1872
Source of text:
Princeton University Library, Special Collections, Manuscripts Division (Briton Rivière Family Correspondence C 1637)
Summary:
Please to send to Briton Riviere the block with the drawing of the dog, and a new block of the same size.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
21 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 219.8: 29
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sketchley Ffinden
Date:
21 May [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 122
Summary:
Sends £35 as his subscription towards the building of a vicarage.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 251
Summary:
Believes many of the species and even genera of the fish family Labyrinthici are products of domestication.
Events at the British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Fulvio Martinelli
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 59
Summary:
[MS of a short paper on pigeon breeding by an Italian doctor.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
22 May [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.416)
Summary:
Comments on migration as a factor in evolution. Suggests pamphlet by August Weismann on the subject [Über den Einfluss der Isolierung (1872)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 178
Summary:
Will try again to draw the expression of a pleased dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
B. Charles Brough
Date:
22 May 1872
Source of text:
Brough, B. C. (1873). The non-convexity of water. A reply to Mr. Wallace. The Zetetic: A Monthly Journal of Cosmographical Science : 1 (7): 56-57 [p. 57]
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
22 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 10
Summary:
Agrees to contribute £10 towards a new road in the area of Beckenham, although he doubts whether the road will be of much use to him.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 May 1872
Source of text:
Gilman 1899, p. 315
Summary:
JDD is sending a copy of his book, Corals and coral islands [1872], with his compliments.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adèle-Athénaïs Mialaret (Athénaïs) Michelet
Date:
23 May 1872
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.417)
Summary:
Discusses books about cats and crosses in cats. Thanks her for her book on cats.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
H Montague
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 171: 231
Summary:
Sends MS of a book on progressive development on this planet and in the universe. Asks CD to underwrite its publication.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Chauncey Wright
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 181: 168
Summary:
Has replied [in North Am. Rev. 115 (1872): 1–30] to Mivart’s communication to the North American Review [114 (1872): 451–68].
Discusses the degree of fixedness of different characters in organisms.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A57–8
Summary:
Again seeks help with his rabbits; hopes one of CD’s men can take them.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Briton Riviere
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 179
Summary:
Thanks for CD’s books [unspecified].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
27 May [1872]
Source of text:
UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/10)
Summary:
Agrees to care for FG’s rabbits and will breed from them.
Plans to go to Southampton for ten days.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project