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DCP-LETT-11017

From:
Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 183
Summary:

Having just read Climbing plants, wishes CD to have enclosed pamphlets, one on cucumbers from 20 years ago, and another on movement in vegetables, also very old.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Georg Moritz (Otto) Busch
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7)
Summary:

Thanks OB for his work on Schopenhauer [Arthur Schopenhauer. Beitrag zu einer Dogmatik der Religionslosen (1877)]

and for his remarks on bees and clover. When CD spoke, last spring, of the few seeds produced by red clover, he supposed it was due to rarity of humble-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11018

From:
Alfred James Martinelli
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 58
Summary:

Reports an annual bean plant that formed a tuber and is now growing in the second year.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11020

From:
Lewis Henry Morgan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 241
Summary:

Criticises Herbert Spencer’s Principles of sociology, particularly for its treatment of the family, for its superficiality, and for its dependence on J. F. McLennan’s views on exogamy. Americans are coming to see Spencer’s ideas as too broad.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC642

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Charles Robert Darwin]
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
Asa Gray Correspondence 24, Archives of the Gray Herbarium
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

JHC390

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.39, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs William Thiselton-Dyer [WTD] that he has sent his wife[?] & books by train to him at Betws-y-coed. JDH discusses the controversy surrounding the RBG Kew boundary wall, Mitford [First Commissioner of Works] supports JDH but Engleheart, the Selwyn's & Stock & Co object. JDH has complained about the substandard materials Carless provided for painting[?] the Palm House & recommended that his contract be terminated. He is frustrated that Wilkie did nothing to stop Carless & it fell to Smith to 'shut the gates' on him. Discusses the poor heating system in the herbarium. Gregory is keen to employ [Daniel] Morris at Ceylon [Peradeniya Botanic Garden] in place of [Marcus Manuel] Hartog. JDH has prepared 3 months of the BOTANICAL MAGAZINE & will ask [Daniel] Oliver to look after it from here on.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-77-06-26a

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
No. 2873, unit 45, p. 553, VPRS 1187/P outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11016F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
26 June [1877]
Source of text:
John Wilson (dealer) (5 May 2008)
Summary:

Asks for a copy [of an unknown item] to be sent to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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