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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[George Bentham]
Date:
July 1872
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 40
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Jacob Agardh
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
July 1872
Source of text:
Handskr. Avdl., Universitetsbibliotek, Lund, Sweden
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
[–] von Gloeden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 165: 57
Summary:

Comments on Descent.

Attempts to explain differing sex ratios in births from illegitimate unions, Jewish marriages, and Christian marriages.

Speculates on role of male and female elements in conception.

Thinks survival of individual conflicts in some degree with survival of species; for example, hybrids often live longer than fertile individuals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
July? 1872?
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 244-245
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Ellingwood Abbot
Date:
2 July 1872
Source of text:
Harvard University Archives (Papers of F. E. Abbot, 1841–1904. Named Correspondence, 1857–1903. Folder: Darwin, Charles and W. E. Darwin (son), 1871–1883, box 44. HUG 1101)
Summary:

Renews subscription to Index.

Was interested in FEA’s lecture on "The God of science" [Index 24 Feb 1872].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henry Cole
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
3 July 1872
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 248-249
Summary:

Marked "Private" giving notice of there being insufficient funds from the Treasury to pay for a Director of the Bethnal Green Museum. Also giving indication of the Museum's likely future away from Natural History.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 July [1872]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (107)
Summary:

Thanks for AG’s book, How plants behave [see 8363].

Is correcting proofs of Expression.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Denny
Date:
9 July 1872
Source of text:
University of Otago Library, Special Collections (DeB MS 55)
Summary:

Has read JD’s articles in the Gardeners’ Chronicle [(1872): 872, 904–5].

Questions him on the fertility of certain varieties of Pelargonium which are fertile with some varieties but infertile with others.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
10 July [1872-3]
Source of text:
Stuart Lutz Historic Documents (dealer) (January 2020)
Summary:

Sends publication details of Coral reefs, which he thinks is now only available in Geology of the ‘Beagle’: Geological observations on coral reefs, volcanic islands, and on South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Darwin
Date:
11 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 153: 90
Summary:

CD wants no more alterations than are necessary [to proofs of Expression]. Warns LD that "any alteration seems at first an improvement".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Casey
Date:
11 July 1872
Source of text:
MS 9575 Casey papers, precis vol. 3, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
John Denny
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 159
Summary:

Replies to CD’s queries. Duke of Cornwall Pelargonium is fertile with its own pollen. Has failed to produce hybrids from other varieties besides P. peltatum and P. elegans. Sends numbers of the Florist which contain an account of his mode of procedure ["On cross-breeding pelargoniums" Florist & Pomologist (1872): 10, 34, 50].

Reports a confirmation of his theory of the prepotence of the male parent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 222–3
Summary:

Overjoyed at the way the newspapers have taken up JDH’s case. The memorial has done great good this way, whatever the wretched Government does. It is enough to make one a Tory. JDH has done a service to all men of science by showing governments that they cannot be trampled on.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
12 July [1872]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.420)
Summary:

Comments on enclosed discussion of S. American geology by Agassiz. Mentions elevation of Patagonia and glaciation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
12 July [1872-4]
Source of text:
National Library of Russia (Collection of P. Waxell (F. 965): no 637)
Summary:

Has not strength or time to hunt for Herminium monorchis; has failed to make orchid seeds germinate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 164: 195
Summary:

Will not pass through London, so will not be able to call at Down.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 161: 82
Summary:

Asks whether he can start soon on translating Expression.

Thinks CD has gone a little too far on St G. J. Mivart’s objection, which he thinks did very little harm in Germany.

JVC’s history of zoology is finished [Geschichte der Zoologie bis auf Joh. Müller und Charl. Darwin (1872)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Denny
Date:
14 July [1872]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 114–15
Summary:

Discusses JD’s crossing experiments with Pelargonium; notes that his conclusions on male prepotence oppose those of Gärtner. Suggests that his observations on differences in fertility of certain varieties of Pelargonium crossed with certain other varieties be communicated to the Linnean Society.

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From:
Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 July 1872
Source of text:
DAR 162: 233
Summary:

Thanks CD for invitation but declines because of his need for a rest instead of coming to England in July.

Repeats his offer to help CD at any time. "I am always learning by trying to answer your questions."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
14 July 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project