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From:
Martindale, William
To:
Darwin, Francis
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 171: 57
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Mary Catherine Sackville-West, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, countess of Derby; Mary Catherine Stanley, countess of Derby
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 162: 170
Summary:
Sends fragment of bone from the head of a fish called "Corbin", brought from River Plate by her brother.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
25 May 1878
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:
Is glad RM will draw up a paper from Fritz Müller’s letter.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Blanche; Alice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 144
Summary:
Request an autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
George Cupples
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 161: 304
Summary:
Applies sexual selection to origin of dog race [deerhound]. Proposes descent from a large extinct dog.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Whitelegge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 181: 94
Summary:
Has found a few examples of Ranunculus repens with stamens reduced as in R. acris.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[28 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 106
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
28 May 1878
Source of text:
Herbarium Department, letters received, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
John Firminger Duthie
Date:
28 May 1878
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/4 f.11, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Friedrich Ludwig
Date:
29 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 146: 137
Summary:
Thanks FL for the Plantago specimens. FL’s view of the stages by which the plant has become gynodioecious seems very probable.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wallis Nash
Date:
29 May 1878
Source of text:
F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection)
Summary:
Comments on WN’s Oregon: there and back (1878).
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[30 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 174
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Edward William Fithian
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101
Summary:
Requests, as Treasurer of the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund, part of the amount guaranteed by CD and family to defray expenses incurred in resisting closure of the footpath.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
William Odgers
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 May 1878
Source of text:
No. 2302, pp. 1386-7, unit 48, VPRS 1187/P, outward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.Copies of the circular were sent to heads of 14 of the subsidiary departments within the Chief Secretary’s Department
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Blanche; Alice
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 May 1878
Source of text:
DAR 159: 145
Summary:
Thank CD for autograph.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Fawcett
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
31 May 1878
Source of text:
RB MSS M7, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Fithian
Date:
[31 May 1878]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 101v
Summary:
Remits subscription as requested by EWF as the Knockholt & Chevening Footpath Fund [see 11535].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Frederick Perigal
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
31 May 1878
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46441 ff. 47-48
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project