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FVM-70-07-10b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
10 July 1870
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-70-08-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
10 August 1870
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7386A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
30 Nov [1870]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/11)
Summary:

Is pleased to hear that the translator for the Dutch edition [of Descent] is a person so well qualified [see 7384]. He encloses a facsimile of the title page. Reports arrangements with John Murray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-70-12-30

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
30 December 1870
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
20 [Jan or Feb] 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 32)
Summary:

Asks WED’s help in acquiring expression photographs and engravings.

Wishes to send Langstaff a copy of his book [Expression], in gratitude for his valuable notes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8208

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
11 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 31)
Summary:

Would like precise details about pouting of English children to add to his information about children of savages.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7576

From:
Patrick Matthew
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Mar 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library)
Summary:

Encloses an article he wrote for the Scotsman [9 Mar 1871, p. 5].

Wishes he had time to write a critique of Descent. There is evidence of design and benevolence in nature. Beauty cannot be accounted for by natural selection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7689G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Michael Foster
Date:
16 Apr 1871
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/16); DAR 195.1: 11–13
Summary:

Encloses two questions he hopes MF can answer: the mechanism of transmission by nerves; and the mechanism by which contemplating part of our body, we become conscious of its existence

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7845

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
1 July [1871]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 68)
Summary:

Thanks AGB for "various notes".

Would like to hear his views about the Brahmaea.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8140

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
3 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 30)
Summary:

Thanks for letter [8137]. Finds observation at Stonehenge of depth of mould at different parts of slope "most valuable".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8145

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
5 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/17)
Summary:

Feels that StGJM’s review of Descent [Q. Rev. 131 (1871): 47–90] greatly misrepresents CD’s opinions and conclusions. Feels their differences of opinion are so great that discussion of almost any subject would be a waste of both their time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8147

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
6 Jan 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Manuscripts MSS DAR 29)
Summary:

Asks FD questions about his sketch [missing] of ridges and furrows. [FD’s answers are interlined.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8149

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
St George Jackson Mivart
Date:
8 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/18)
Summary:

Wishes their correspondence regarding their differences to be dropped, as CD feels that nothing he could say would have any influence on StGJM.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8174

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
23 Jan [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 34)
Summary:

Discusses earthworm activity observed in old ploughed fields.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-72-02-12

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
12 February 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley Correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-72-03-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Peter MacOwan
Date:
26 March 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, 'The botanical brethren', MSS BOT, Letter no. 18.One of a bound collection of photocopies of letters of eminent botanists, made from earlier photocopies which are in private hands
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:
11 May [1872]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library Günther 44)
Summary:

Encloses a testimonial for AG [in support of his application for a promotion at British Museum].

Does he agree with Carl Gegenbaur’s paper on the limbs of fish [Jenaische Z. Naturwiss. 5 (1870): 397–447]?

Asks what caused G. R. Gray’s sudden death.

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FVM-72-07-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
14 July 1872
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-73-07-14a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
14 July 1873
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London. Botany Library, Berkeley correspondence, vol. 9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-8978

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
15 July [1873]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR A6)
Summary:

HE’s facts about the Mexican ant [Myrmecocystus mexicanus] are "most wonderful & interesting".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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