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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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FL-0790

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[27 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 150
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-77-06-27a

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
27 June 1877
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11020F

From:
Frederic Harrison
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
27 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1916
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s £5 contribution towards Jules Michelet’s tomb.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11021

From:
Charles Edwin Bessey
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 160: 178
Summary:

Has heard through Asa Gray of CD’s interest in his work on Lithospermum and Oxalis. Thinks dimorphism in Oxalis is but early stage toward complete separation of sexes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11022

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 171: 488
Summary:

Explains the delay in publishing [Forms of flowers].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11024

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
30 June [1877]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms. 42152 ff. 302–3)
Summary:

Has not heard from Appleton about an American edition [of Forms of flowers]. Asks how many copies Murray is printing.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0791

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[30 June 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 151
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-11023

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
Date:
30 June 1877
Source of text:
The Huntington Library (HM 36173)
Summary:

CD interested in EK’s argument against belief that sense of colour has been recently acquired by man. Describes his observations of the difficulty his own children had in distinguishing, or naming, colours.

Adds that it appeared to him the gustatory sense of his children, when young, differed from that of grown-up persons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11025

From:
William Roberts
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 176: 185
Summary:

He is delivering address at the British Medical Association’s Manchester meeting ["Address in medicine", Br. Med. J. (1877) pt 2: 168–73]. Will develop theme that parasites are variations of common types, e.g., Bacillus anthracis is a variant of B. subtilis. Asks for more examples.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11026

From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 June 1877
Source of text:
DAR 178: 115
Summary:

Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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