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FVM-81-08-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Secretary, Linnean Society of London
Date:
August 1881
Source of text:
Linnean Society, London, Certificates of Fellows, Foreign Members and Associates 1877-82
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-08-00a

From:
Harriet Scott
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
August 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Letter dated on basis of its evident relationship to H. Scott to M, 15 August 1881 (in this edition as 81-08-15b). It was certainly written prior to Scott’s marriage to C. W. Morgan in 1882
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13269

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
2 Aug 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 49645: 100–2)
Summary:

Comments on MS of JL’s [1881] BAAS Presidential Address. Suggests that more attention be given to parthenogenesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13269A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Marianne North
Date:
2 Aug 1881
Source of text:
North 1894 , 2: 216
Summary:

Obliged for the shrub "Australian Sheep" [Raoulia eximia] and pleased to have seen MN’s Australian pictures. Can still recall scenes from various countries with vividness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13270

From:
Leopold Würtenberger
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 188
Summary:

Repeats request for loan in order to spend probationary training period in chemical factory.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-9907

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:
[4 Aug 1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD wants to see TLB before he leaves London. Much obliged for his aid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13274

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
4 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 181
Summary:

Reports on a luncheon of scientific savants at which the Crown Prince of Germany [and Prince of Wales?] were present.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-08-04

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
4 August 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, London, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81. f. 314
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13272

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 104: 154–7
Summary:

Outlines address to York BAAS meeting on history of geographical distribution. Organising theme: advancement in this science based on ideas enunciated by scientific voyagers. Asks CD’s advice.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13273

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Martindale
Date:
4 Aug 1881
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.7781/1–32 item 19)
Summary:

Acknowledges receipt of parcel of colours and chemical reagents.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13268

From:
William Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 5 Aug 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 165: 86
Summary:

Quotes CD’s "horrid doubt" [see 13230]. WG fails to see force of the argument. Evolution throws no suspicion on man’s reasoning faculties. The case is no different with the faculty that gives data.

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DCP-LETT-13276

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Graham
Date:
5 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 139.12: 8
Summary:

Thanks him for his letter. "I am not a quick thinker or a good talker and you would learn nothing from me on the many important subjects you have discussed."

Suggests meeting in London in lieu of a visit to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13275

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leopold Würtenberger
Date:
5 Aug 1881
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.595)
Summary:

CD does not lend money, but he encloses a cheque as a present.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13278

From:
August Dupré
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 162: 244
Summary:

AD’s son has inherited the same head malformation as one AD had received as a result of the pressure of his nurse’s arm while carrying him when a baby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13277

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 95: 518–23
Summary:

Responds to JDH’s outline history of plant geography.

Considers Humboldt the "greatest scientific traveller who ever lived".

Discusses the origin and rapid radiation of angiosperms in Cretaceous period.

Comments on importance of work of Alphonse de Candolle, Saporta, Axel Blytt.

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DCP-LETT-13278A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Clowes & Sons
Date:
6 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 213: 13
Summary:

Asks the printers that the table of contents [for Earthworms] be done in the same fashion used in his other books. Requests another proof.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0512

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[7 or 14 August 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 145
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13279

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George John Romanes
Date:
7 Aug [1881]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.596)
Summary:

Encloses notice about Wilhelm Roux’s book [see 13118].

Comments on John Collier’s portrait.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13281

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
August Dupré
Date:
8 Aug 1881
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

AD’s case is a "curious one"; it seems impossible to explain as accidental coincidence.

[Letter sent in error to Raphael Meldola and apparently never forwarded to AD.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13280

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
8 Aug 1881
Source of text:
Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological Collections 1350: Hope/Westwood Archive, Darwin folder)
Summary:

Requests name of the publishers of RM’s translation of Weismann’s Studien.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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