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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
February 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
February 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

No summary available.

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
February 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
February 1880
Source of text:
In and out letter and packet book, letter register, Colonial Botanist, book one, 1879-1894, Queensland Herbarium, Brisbane
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
the Forest Branch, India
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
February 1880
Source of text:
Forests Branch, proceedings, February nos 44-50, Part B, Home, Revenue and Agriculture Department, National Archives of India, New Delhi
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[February 1880?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 223
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
1 Feb [1880]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B98–101, B102, B121; DAR 185: 40
Summary:

Sends the Litchfields two drafts of a letter in reply to Samuel Butler’s letter to the Athenæum; hopes for their approval.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield; Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 Feb 1880]
Source of text:
DAR 92: B72–4; B91–4
Summary:

Advise against making any reply to Samuel Butler’s charges.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B75–8, 81
Summary:

Has shown S. Butler’s Athenæum letter to Frederick Pollock, who confirms RBL’s advice that it needs no answer. Sends an imaginary response by Butler.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wallis Nash
Date:
1 Feb 1880
Source of text:
F. Louise Nash Barton (private collection)
Summary:

Can well understand WN’s new life. WN’s departure a heavy loss.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 336)
Summary:

Asks THH to advise him about a response to Samuel Butler’s attack accusing CD of dishonesty. Quotes the advice of others but will do what THH advises.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 146: 56
Summary:

Thanks RBL for advice [concerning dispute with Samuel Butler]. Notes reaction of family.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
William Zaccheus Seddon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 177: 126
Summary:

WZS, 12-year-old pupil, asks where he can find answer to question of what causes different shades of colour in inhabitants of earth.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
3 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 251: 1412
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 209.6: 201
Summary:

Germination of Megarrhiza. AG’s observations at variance with CD’s.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B82–3
Summary:

Has read Butler’s letter and CD’s draft reply and Litchfield’s letter. Has no hesitation in saying CD should take no notice. Litchfield’s advice is judicious.

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From:
Richard Buckley Litchfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
DAR 92: B79–80
Summary:

Thinks Huxley’s judgment on answering S. Butler’s charges would be trustworthy, though THH is horribly pugnacious and would naturally be for fighting.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
3 Feb 1880
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.570)
Summary:

Says it is not likely he will be able to criticise GJR’s work.

Recommends Jean-Henri Fabre, Souvenirs entomologiques [1879].

Encloses letters from J. F. Moulton [12350 and 12356].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
4 February 1880
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 133, 134
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Edward Ramsay
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 February 1880
Source of text:
Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde, Stuttgart
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project