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FVM-76-11-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Royal Geographical Society
Date:
November 1876
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society, London, Archives, Journal mss, Miscellaneous, 1877, Mueller, F.Manuscript received by the Royal Geographical Society on 22 January 1877. Francis Galton, the referee, reported on 12 February 1877: ‘Baron Mueller’s hope that a Geographical Congress could frame rules for Geographical nomenclature “to which the whole world would bow” seems to me too Utopian. I do not think the communication deserving of being printed.’One of M’s visiting cards is pinned to the manuscript. In the manuscript, paragraphs are indicated by ‘—’; these marks have not been transcribed, but paragraph breaks have been made accordingly
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-10660F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Ray Lankester
Date:
[after 1 Nov 1876]
Source of text:
Warner ed. 1896, 2 : 4391
Summary:

Offers to contribute £10 towards ERL’s expenses in prosecuting Henry Slade, the spiritualistic imposter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-76-11-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
2 November 1876
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates, 1871-76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC615

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
William Henry Smith
Date:
2 November 1876
Source of text:
JDH/1/14/1 f.52, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

At the behest of the Royal Society officers JDH requests a meeting with an officer of the Treasury. This is in response to a letter from Mr Law. JDH will call at the Treasury the following day; Friday 3 Nov 1876, in hope of seeing William Henry Smith.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10661

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 254
Summary:

Sends a Japanese book illustrating the expression of emotions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP4332

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Date:
3 November 1876
Source of text:
Folger Shakespeare Library: C.a.24 (44)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10662

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 [Nov 1876]
Source of text:
Archives of the Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (130c)
Summary:

Sends some sheets [of Cross and self-fertilisation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC169

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
4 November 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/22/1/1 f.59-60, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Asa Gray for a letter of 16 Oct pointing out a mistake in a plant description, the plant as identified incorrectly by Thompson & [John Gilbert] Baker & JDH missed the mistake in the absence of [Daniel] Oliver. JDH asks Gray to explain why he has kept D. elegans & D. puchella [pulchella?] separate as it is not clear from Gray's BOTANY OF CALIFORNIA. Baker & Oliver are certain Gray is wrong about an Iris. Baker is progressing fast with the Mauritian flora. Bennett has bequeathed RBG Kew a share of the Brownian Australia Herbarium. George Bentham is working on Cyperaceae & waiting for Muller to send Australian specimens. Munro is working on Gramineae for Alphonse De Candolle. JDH is busy with Royal Society affairs & preparing his Royal Society Presidential Anniversary Address. Discusses a dispute between the British Museum & Sir Wyville Thomson over distribution & publication of the Challenger expedition collections. The expedition was arranged by the Royal Society so they will adjudicate the dispute on behalf of the government. JDH is strongly against the collections going to the British Museum but is in a difficult position regarding the dispute as he is a Trustee of the British Museum as well as President of the Royal Society & Director of RBG Kew. JDH states that Richard Owen [Superintendant of the natural history department of the British Museum] is unpopular. JDH incredulously cites a claim Owen made to the Treasury that the Keepers of Botany at the British Museum, from Robert Brown to William Carruthers, were responsible for describing the plants collected on Government expeditions dating from the voyages of James Cooke & Matthew Flinders to Berthold Carl Seemann. JDH is especially busy as Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer is on holiday in Italy.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-10698

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Jenner Weir
Date:
4 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (29 October 1962)
Summary:

Promises to propose JJW for membership in Zoological Society.

Sympathises with JJW’s enthusiasm about the Danais and hopes it may become naturalised in this country.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10663

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Date:
5 Nov 1876
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 7)
Summary:

Thanks for Japanese book and for HNM’s papers on observations made during Challenger voyage.

Would be pleased if HNM visited him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10664

From:
John Ferguson McLennan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 23
Summary:

L. H. Morgan has plagiarised his and Henry Maine’s works for years.

Encourages George Darwin to continue his work on consanguineous marriages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10665

From:
Henry Nottidge Moseley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 171: 255
Summary:

Accepts invitation to Down for 17 or 18 November.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1233

From:
Balfour, F. M.
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 November 1876
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1901
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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WCP2343

From:
William Alexander Forbes
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 November 1876
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 352-353
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP3565

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
10 November 1876
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society: RGS Corr. Block CB6 1871-80 WALLACE A. RUSSEL
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-10666

From:
Frigyes Medveczky
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 160: 41
Summary:

Writing under the name of Friedrich von Bärenbach, FM sends his paper on J. G. Herder as a precursor of Darwin’s theory [Herder als Vorgänger Darwins (1877)]; hopes CD will acknowledge him as such.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-10667

From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
11 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 178: 205
Summary:

Is attempting to write a book on elementary lessons in anthropology [Anthropology (1881)] and wonders whether CD’s son [Francis] would care to collaborate and aid him with the biological parts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1062

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
12 November [1876]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 1.52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-10668

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Nov 1876
Source of text:
DAR 165: 191
Summary:

Thanks for sheets of new book. Intends to talk about it at a scientific social club meeting.

Is amused to read CD’s criticisms of his own style, as in the U. S. it is spoken of as being as faultless as his temper. Corrects a reference.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC389

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 November 1876
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.38, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH thanks Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] for his letter about his travels in North Italy containing admiration for Verona & Saint Marks of Venice. JDH recalls admiring the whole of Venice & the powerful paintings of Titian & Paul Veronese in the Scuola or Academia. Neither JDH nor WTTD like Tintoretto's paintings. JDH recommends WTTD go to Antibes. JDH updates WTTD on the ongoing dispute with the British Museum regarding the collections from the HMS 'Challenger' Expedition. JDH does not think the Treasury should have been involved & will argue that control should go to [Sir Charles Wyville] Thomson with oversight from the Royal Society. JDH is hopeful that the money will be granted for the herbarium men. JDH describes the appointee to the position of Bailiff of the Parks & his salary. Humphreys has been asking about WTTD in connection with an examination. Two seeds of Welwitschia have germinated but been killed by carelessness, there is also a young Welwitschia a foot long. JDH complains about [Richard] Lynch, who has lost all the [George] Nares plants. JDH declares that running an establishment such as RBG Kew requires scientific method. JDH describes the 'No. 4' [green] house as 'miserable', Seward is to be dismissed & JDH or WTTD will have to take the house in hand. JDH is going to spend 3 days with [George] Allman & will work on his Royal Society address.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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