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FVM-81-06-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Dietrich Brandis
Date:
June 1881
Source of text:
Index to the proceedings of the Government of India, Home Department, Forests, July-December1881, National Archives of India, New Delhi
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-12965

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Agassiz
Date:
1 [June] 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 10
Summary:

Thanks AA for letter on coral reefs. "I used to think … that areas of elevation and of subsidence must – as a general rule be separated by a single great line of fissure, or rather of several".

Suggests that AA urge again his views on reappearance of old characters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Eliot Norton
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Charles Eliot Norton Papers, MS Am 1088.14: 1599)
Summary:

No Benjamin Franklin letters to Erasmus Darwin preserved.

Was inaccurate about Franklin’s nephews [in Erasmus Darwin].

Recounts story about Franklin at court of France.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13188

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116
Summary:

Asks CD to lunch to meet the Prince of Wales.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dawson
Date:
[3 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 116v
Summary:

Thanks JD for his book [Australian aborigines (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13191

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June 1881
Source of text:
Francisco Ayala (private collection)
Summary:

Is honoured by, and accepts JP’s invitation for 3 August.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13192F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 4 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 274.1: 75
Summary:

Encloses letter from Elfving (not found). Should he publish on false circumnutation?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0022

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
4 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 14
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
4 [June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 80
Summary:

Has taken almost all FD’s corrections for chapter six [of Earthworms]. Is glad FD approves of the book.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13196

From:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 44
Summary:

Invites CD to visit Rothamsted. The experimental plots are at their best "as illustrating the vast influence of external conditions on the character and results of the struggle between the numerous components of an established mixed herbage".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13195

From:
Leopold Sirk
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 36
Summary:

Austrian correspondent on proverbs, philosophy, and politics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13194

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Darwin
Date:
[c. 6 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 211: 81
Summary:

Has accepted FD’s correction to chapter seven [of Earthworms].

Weather is bad; sky like lead and the lake as black as ink.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-06-06

From:
William Woolls
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 June 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M46, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Initial part of the letter found with a specimen of Eucalyptus siderophloia (MEL 231683)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13197

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
8 June [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 104
Summary:

Discusses a letter [not found] from R. S. Ball that has quite delighted him.

Describes events at Patterdale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13198

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Henry Gilbert
Date:
8 June 1881
Source of text:
Rothamsted Research (GIL13)
Summary:

Regrets that he has not strength enough to visit [Rothamsted].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13200

From:
Reuben Almond Blair
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 201: 5
Summary:

Mentions Mastodon remains that he has seen.

Praises CD and his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-1340

From:
Darwin, Elizabeth
To:
Darwin, Ida
Date:
[9 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 258: 630
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13199

From:
George Howard Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[9 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.2: 88
Summary:

Has nearly finished his mathematical paper.

Is not sure when he will go to Patterdale.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-06-10

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 June 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.MS embossed with crest of Royal Gardens Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0023

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[11 June 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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