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FVM-78-05-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Graham Berry
Date:
12 May 1878
Source of text:
N78/4931, unit 1011, VPRS 3991/P inward registered correspondence, Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-05-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 May 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 211-14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11538

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[13–26 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 26
Summary:

Has had conflicting information on the movement of radicles; wants FD to experiment with them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-05-13

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Edward Ramsay
Date:
13 May 1878
Source of text:
ML MSS.562, Letters to E. P. Ramsay 1862-91, Mitchell Library, State Library of NSW, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11507

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Meehan
Date:
13 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 356
Summary:

Criticises article by TM. "Such a manner of treating the work of other observers did not appear to me the way to encourage truth."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11506

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
13 May [1878]
Source of text:
Christ Church Library, Oxford (MS 516)
Summary:

Blood-red onions enclosed.

GJR to come whenever convenient.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC1094

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
[Henry Chichester Hart]
Date:
13 May 1878
Source of text:
JDH/1/15 f.148, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-11509

From:
Naphtali Lewy (Halevi)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 201: 21
Summary:

Believes that weakness of hybrids explains Biblical injunctions against improper unions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-11508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 May 1878
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Thiselton-Dyer, W. T., Letters from Charles Darwin 1873–81: 122–3)
Summary:

Heliotropism. Requires some plants for experiments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11510

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
15 May [1878]
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Encloses Fritz Müller letter, which may be of interest [see 11463].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11513

From:
Charles James (Charles) Layton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 101–3
Summary:

Encloses statement of U. S. sales of CD’s work to 29 April 1878 and sends a cheque for balance due to CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
The British Library (Loan MS 10 no 46)
Summary:

Has forwarded FM’s letter to Raphael Meldola.

Thanks for information on Mimosa.

Would like to know how Cassia behaves in the rain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11514

From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 92
Summary:

Gynodioecism in Ranunculus acris.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-05-16a

From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 May 1878
Source of text:
No. 2088, p. 1200, unit 48, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office of Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-78-05-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
17 May 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Miscellaneous Reports 7.2, Queensland Cultural Products 1876-1905, f. 254
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Whitelegge
Date:
17 May 1878
Source of text:
Mitchell Library, Sydney (MLMSS 5833)
Summary:

Will use TW’s case of gynodioecious Ranunculus if he prints a new edition of Forms of flowers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-78-05-18

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
18 May 1878
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, ff. 215-17
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-11515F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, 3d marquess of Salisbury
Date:
[18 May 1878]
Source of text:
Daily News , 23 May 1878, p. 2
Summary:

Requesting permission to present a declaration against war to the Foreign secretary.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11516

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
[18 May 1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 200)
Summary:

Glad to see TWH for Sunday dinner.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11516F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Date:
19 May [1878]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1162.10: 201)
Summary:

CD will be glad to see TWH on Friday next, and invites him to stay the night.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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