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DCP-LETT-12257

From:
Daniel Mackintosh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 171: 8
Summary:

DM is highly gratified by CD’s opinion of his labours on boulders [see 12252]. He owes his start on this subject to CD. Since 1843 he has supported CD’s views on transportation of boulders by ice.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-10-14

From:
William Woolls
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
14 October 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-10-15

From:
Friedrich Hardeck
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 October 1879
Source of text:
General-Landesarchiv, Karlsruhe, 233/4340
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12258

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
15 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Sends £2 for the "Buttonian subscription" [see 9229].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12260

From:
Emily Alston; Emily Beke
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 125
Summary:

Thanks for CD’s reply to her letter and his kindness. She is getting over her difficulties.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12260A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wendell Phillips Garrison
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Private collection
Summary:

Sends his thanks for the beautifully illustrated book for children [What Mr Darwin saw]

and for the memorials of William Lloyd Garrison. [See 12248.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12259

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Mackintosh
Date:
16 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].

Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-10-17

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Le Patourel
Date:
17 October 1879
Source of text:
M79/39, unit 34, VPRS 1096 inward correspondence, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12261

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Oct [1879]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: ff. 185–6)
Summary:

Wants some seeds to see how certain seedlings break through ground.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12263

From:
William Sweetland Dallas
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 99: 129–30
Summary:

Suggests £20 as a fair payment for his work on Erasmus Darwin.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-12262

From:
George Sim
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 177: 163
Summary:

Describes cow with three toes

and a woman with two functional nipples on left breast.

Contributor:
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FVM-79-10-18a

From:
the Freies Deutsche Hochstift
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 October 1879
Source of text:
Freies Deutsches Hochstift Frankfurter Goethemuseum, Frankfurt am Main.Letter not found
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-79-10-20

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
20 October 1879
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 248
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12264

From:
Ernst Ludwig (Ernst) Krause
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 92: B41–2
Summary:

Sends corrections. Printing of German edition has not yet begun.

Charles Reinwald wishes to print only CD’s sketch. French hostility to Germans the reason.

Gustav Jäger and Robert Caspary no longer on title-page of Kosmos.

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DCP-LETT-12266

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Casimir Pyramus (Casimir) de Candolle
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Archives de la famille de Candolle (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks CdeC for his work [Anatomie comparée des feuilles (1879)]. The plates are wonderfully good.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-79-10-21

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 October 1879
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12265

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Sylvester Morse
Date:
21 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Peabody Essex Museum: Phillips Library (E. S. Morse Papers, E 2, Box 3, Folder 11)
Summary:

Thanks for ESM’s paper [see 12201].

Remarks on progress of Japan.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1339

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[22 October 1879]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 629
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-12267

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
DAR 263: 68 (EH 88206512)
Summary:

Condolences on the death of JL’s wife.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-12267F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Sim
Date:
22 Oct 1879
Source of text:
Aberdeen City Libraries, Local Studies (George Sim papers)
Summary:

Polydactylism is very common, and so are supernumerary mammae in men and women.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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