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DCP-LETT-8382

From:
Menyhért Lónyay
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 96: 154
Summary:

CD has been elected a Foreign Member of the Magyar Tudományos Akademia [Hungarian Academy of Sciences].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-8383F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 June 1872
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS JT/1/TYP/8/2654)
Summary:

If the Memorial concerning Joseph Dalton Hooker’s dispute with Acton Smee Ayrton was sent to Down, there will be a delay in its return. He has discussed the matter with Mary Catherine Stanley (Lady Derby).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Menyhért Lónyay
Date:
[after 11 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 154r
Summary:

Thanks for his election to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-06-12

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 June 1872
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8384

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 177: 230
Summary:

HS hopes in the future to show more fully "absolute emptiness" of James Martineau’s propositions; is glad CD approved of his article dealing with JM’s arguments. [J. Martineau, "The place of mind in nature", Contemp. Rev. 19 (1872): 606–23; H. Spencer, "Mr Martineau on evolution", Contemp. Rev. 20 (1872): 141–54.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8379

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[13 June 1872]
Source of text:
DAR 103: 116–17
Summary:

Asks WED to direct bearer of letter to CD, as he has an address [memorial from men of science to W. E. Gladstone] for him to sign.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8379F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
13 June [1872-4]
Source of text:
Brandes Autographs (dealers) (January 2018)
Summary:

Asks recipient to send parcels to his brother, Erasmus Alvey Darwin, at 6 Queen Anne Street, London, and not to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8385

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
14 June [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 220–1
Summary:

Has signed the memorial by men of science with real pleasure. Fears it may be too severe. He told Lady Derby about JDH’s troubles. She said she would tell Lord Derby what he had said.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8386

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 103: 114–15
Summary:

Expects the memorial to make Gladstone frantic. Government regrets granting Lord Derby the correspondence and Lubbock has been advised to postpone calling for it in Lower House. This looks fishy. Is exhausted by the affair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8387

From:
Benjamin Adolphus Renshaw
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 176: 121
Summary:

Reports a monkey-like child in Teneriffe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

SOMERVILLE629

From:
Stratford de Redcliffe
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
15 Jun 1872
Source of text:
MSS 9 / 134, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

DCP-LETT-7345

From:
Lucy Caroline Wedgwood; Lucy Caroline Harrison
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 June 1872?]
Source of text:
DAR 181: 61
Summary:

Worm-casts on a ridged hill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8390

From:
Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 164: 72
Summary:

Asks CD for seeds of some plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8389

From:
Friedrich Tiemann
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 178: 127
Summary:

A goat in Breslau recently gave birth to three kids, two normal but one almost entirely lacking in hair.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
Date:
17 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 143: 415
Summary:

Would be impractical to have FCD check references to physiology in proofs [of Expression]. William Bowman has checked chapter on weeping.

Invites FCD to visit Down when he comes to England in July.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-06-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
17 June 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-1881, f. 43
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-72-06-18a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
18 June 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew. Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-1881. f. 44
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8392

From:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 June 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 252
Summary:

Has been appointed Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-06-20a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
20 June 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 45; 1858-70, f. 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8403F

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
20 June 1872
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9.
Summary:

Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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