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FVM-73-07-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Francis
Date:
10 July 1873
Source of text:
D73/8945, unit 1022, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8974

From:
Charles Harrison Blackley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 193
Summary:

Thanks for suggestion to try effect of dry heat on pollen and for other new information on pollen. Will begin new experiments soon, hoping to cure hay-fever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-07-11

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 July 1873
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8976

From:
Alfred William Bennett
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 160: 141
Summary:

Believes some flowers fail to produce seed because of the access of too great a quantity of pollen. Asks for CD’s opinion and references.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8977A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Seeks the assistance of a professional chemist in securing a qualitative analysis of the fluid secreted by the glands of Drosera which have the power of dissolving animal matter out of the bodies of insects. [See 8979.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8975

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
Date:
12 July [1873]
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5828)
Summary:

Thanks JLGK for photos of natives of Queensland.

Asks if he can observe whether worms throw up castings in wet weather.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8977

From:
John Traherne Moggridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 171: 218
Summary:

Sends his paper on Ophrys insectifera, translated into German by H. G. Reichenbach [Abh. Kais. Leopold.-Carol. Dtsch. Akad. Naturforsch. 33 (1870) no. 3], which shows the intermediates between O. aranifera and O. apifera. He has since gathered information on variation in Ophrys.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8959

From:
Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 12 July 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 114
Summary:

JLGK’s public advocacy of Darwinism brings him into numerous arguments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-07-14b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
14 July 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew Correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 98-99
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-73-07-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
14 July 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP5001

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
[unknown person]
Date:
14 July 1873
Source of text:
Anon. (1873). The challenge: its acceptance, trial, and postponement. The Zetetic and Anti-Theorist : 2 : 41-47 [pp. 41-42]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0456

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. 15 July 1873]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 87
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-8979F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dewar; John Gray M‘Kendrick
Date:
15 July 1873
Source of text:
Royal Institution of Great Britain (RI MS DIe/3)
Summary:

Thanks for the three essays: although they are beyond his scope, they seem to him very interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8978

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
15 July [1873]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A6)
Summary:

HE’s facts about the Mexican ant [Myrmecocystus mexicanus] are "most wonderful & interesting".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-73-07-15a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 July 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller. 1871-81, ff. 102-3; 1858-70, ff. 42, 30
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-73-07-15

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
15 July 1873
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 100-1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8979

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 164: 206
Summary:

Sends sodium carbonate for Drosera experiments. Will try to determine what the solvent is.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-8980A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Frankland
Date:
16 July [1873]
Source of text:
The John Rylands Library, The University of Manchester
Summary:

Thanks EF for his offer of assistance. Could the viscid secretions [in glands of Drosera] contain pepsin? Will the sodium carbonate render the testing of organic matter difficult? [See 8979.] Will send the fluid in a fortnight.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC364

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
16 July 1873
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.12, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH reports that he & [Thomas Henry] Huxley are enjoying their time in France. He asks Thiselton-Dyer how his class is going [Thiselton-Dyer took over Huxley's summer course in elementary biology in 1873 as Huxley was away for his health]. JDH & Huxley have been studying a volcanic phenomenon [volcanic plug] & subsequent glacial action. JDH finds the scenery beautiful. Although the flora is diverse he is not collecting plants. Asks Thiselton-Dyer to tell Daniel Oliver he prefers Le Puy to Nuremberg & to pass on any messages from Oliver or [John] Smith.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-8980

From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 July 1873
Source of text:
DAR 162: 166
Summary:

Sends a bottle containing fish which Lord Arthur Russell had promised to send.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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