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FVM-74-08-07

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
7 August 1874
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 149
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9593

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maxwell Tylden Masters
Date:
7 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.447)
Summary:

Discusses flower structures of the hop.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP5999

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Harris
Date:
7 August 1874
Source of text:
UCLA Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library: George Harris Papers, Series 30, no. 73
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4329

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
7 August 1874
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (40)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9595

From:
Francis Darwin; Amy Richenda (Amy) Ruck; Amy Richenda (Amy) Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 139–40
Summary:

Describe the Pinguicula species found at Mürren. Have found seeds on some. Their large roots seem to indicate that they do not get much animal food.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-9596

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
[8 Aug 1874]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 31
Summary:

Approves of GHD’s letter [to Q. Rev. 137 (1874): 587–9] and his present plan, which removes all CD’s objections. Will make his own letter to Murray less imperious. "It will be a dreadful evil to me, if … we come to a quarrel."

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-08-10a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Rawlinson
Date:
10 August 1874
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Journal MSS Australia (Mueller) 1874
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-08-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Hector
Date:
10 August 1874
Source of text:
IA Series 1, 1881/1421, Internal Affairs Department inwards correspondence, Archives New Zealand Head Office, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-1457

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
11 August 1874
Source of text:
DAR 258: 1640
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-9598

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
11 Aug 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42153 ff. 48–9)
Summary:

Asks JM, as a favour, to use his influence with the Editor of Quarterly Review to print George Darwin’s answer to the charge made by the author of "Primitive man" [St George Mivart] that GD approved "of the encouragement of vice to check population".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9597

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
11 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 20 (EH 88205958)
Summary:

CD has not received the proofs [of JT’s Belfast address to BAAS].

Wishes JT were through with Belfast [meeting of BAAS, 1874]. CD cannot imagine surviving such a week of excitement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-74-08-12

From:
Ernest Giles
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 August 1874
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9599A

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Aug 1874
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 41914 p. 203)
Summary:

Acknowledges CD’s complaint against a paper [by St George Mivart] in the last Quarterly Review [see 9568]. Agrees to print George Darwin’s answer [see 9596].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1483

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
12 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.289, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-9599

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
12 Aug [1874]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 21 (EH 88205959)
Summary:

Returns proofs [of JT’s Belfast address, Rep. BAAS 44 (1874): lxvi–xcvii]. Gratified by what it says about his work and is anxious to read the whole address; it is a grand subject.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9600

From:
Daniel T. Gardner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 97: C75
Summary:

The Club is proposing to celebrate Humboldt’s 105th birthday and would welcome a message from CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1218

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir Henry Barkly
Date:
15 August 1874
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.235-236, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-74-08-16

From:
Edward Ramsay
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 August 1874
Source of text:
RB MSS M126, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-74-08-16a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Redmond Barry]
Date:
16 August 1874
Source of text:
[Central Administration] letter register, Jan. 1869-April 1878, p. 215, University of Melbourne Archives
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-9603

From:
Horace Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1874
Source of text:
DAR 162: 70
Summary:

The occurrence and prevention of scale in boilers.

Anxious to hear Murray’s reply [to CD’s letter 9598].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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