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From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 October 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harvard University Library
Date:
2 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Boston Public Library
Summary:
Sends postal order for Samuel Scudder’s Catalogue [of scientific serials (1879)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 104: 131–2
Summary:
JDH looking for a gardener for CD’s unusual needs.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B43
Summary:
Has returned corrected sheets [of Erasmus Darwin] to Dallas. [CD’s note forwards this letter to a third person, presumably W. S. Dallas.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Magnus Gustaf (Gustaf) Retzius
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Centrum för vetenskapshistoria, Kungl. Vetenskapsakademien (Gustaf Retzius arkiv, Inbundna serien, Engelsmän I, s 37)
Summary:
CD invites MGR and his wife to lunch. Travel directions. Regrets that he will be unable to converse for more than an hour and a half. [See 12246.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Carl Gottfried Semper
Date:
2 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Düsseldorf (slg 60/Dok/61)
Summary:
Discusses CGS’s account of Pellew Islands. Still believes atolls and barrier reefs in Pacific indicate subsidence. But cases like Pellew Islands, if frequent, would make his conclusions of little value.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
2 October 1879
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.297-298, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project