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DCP-LETT-13333

From:
George Henry Haydon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 124
Summary:

Sending some Hudson’s Bay mosquitoes because of a letter of CD’s quoted in Evening Standard, 5 Sept 1881.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13348

From:
Thomas Henry Huxley
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 9: 215)
Summary:

Hopes Anthony Rich will keep to his intention of leaving his fortune to CD, despite CD’s increased wealth.

His BAAS address at York in Nature ["The rise and progress of palaeontology" 24 (1881): 452–5].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP3823

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
12 September 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: DC English Letters 1857-1900 Vol. 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0911

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
13 September 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 270
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13334

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
13 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 182
Summary:

Discusses financial affairs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13335

From:
William Mackmurdo Hacon
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 27
Summary:

Drafting new will as CD requested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13336

From:
George King
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 169: 23
Summary:

Sends preserved pitchers and figure of Dischidia rafflesiana, a rare plant from East Bengal, which GK and the late John Scott had tried in vain to cultivate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0514

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
14 September [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 147
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13337

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 167: 39
Summary:

JBI’s observations on bees and wasps. The hexagonal cells made by solitary queen wasps do not fit explanation in Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

JHC434

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
14 September 1881
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.78, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH informs Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD] of various deliveries & correspondence received or anticipated at RBG Kew & notifies him of RBG Kew plants received elsewhere. Some Madras matting has come for John Reader Jackson [of the RBG Kew museum]. JDH has sent some things to Regel. Treub has received his case & is returning it to RBG Kew filled with Dischidia rafflesiana & Kaulfussia. Daniel Morris written, announcing the safe arrival of 2 Wardian Cases from Nancy & expressing his pleasure at the growth of Landolphias in Jamaica. Mr [Johannes Eugenius Bulow] Warming is sending dried Cycad leaves for WTTD, Cameron is sending C. circinalis from the jungles of Deecan, & Kirk a box of bulbs. Arenga saccharifera arrived in the Bahamas in good condition. The Athens Consul is sending Salvia apples from [Theodor Heinrich Hermann von] Heldreich & a footstool of stems of Ferula communis. Alfred Russel Wallace is sending some more Herbaceous plants. JDH declined to supply the Jamaica men with outfits on the behalf of the C.O. [Colonial Office?]. King's cases have arrived but only Magnolia sphenocarpa is in a fit state. Espeut is angling for RBG Kew to recommend his bananas. Henry Trimen has written complaining about his staffing problems at 'Haggalla' [Hakgala] Garden; where Clarke is ill with Typhus. Horne has sent WTTD a copy of his new book. Frederick Currey has died, he left his fungi to RBG Kew.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-13338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nature
Date:
[before 15 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
Nature , 15 September 1881, p. 459
Summary:

Quotes from a Fritz Müller letter of 9 Aug supporting CD’s views that leaves position themselves at night so as to minimise heat loss by radiation. It is a new fact to CD that leaves take different positions at different seasons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
15 Sept 1881
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

CD interested in JBI’s observations of behaviour of bees. Finds his criticism about hexagonal cells made by queen wasps a good one. Cannot remember how he got out of the difficulty.

His book on worms to be published soon.

E. A. Darwin has died after short illness.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Elizabeth (Bessy, Lizzy) Darwin; Francis Darwin; George Howard Darwin; Horace Darwin; Leonard Darwin; William Erasmus Darwin; Henrietta Emma Darwin; Henrietta Emma Litchfield
Date:
16 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 183
Summary:

A circular letter on the distribution of his money at death and the division ofErasmus’ estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-09-17a

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
17 September 1881
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.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13341

From:
John Price
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Sept 1881
Source of text:
DAR 174: 76
Summary:

Nathan Hubbersty [of Cambridge days] is very ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13342

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
18 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 95: 536–7
Summary:

Comte [de Paris] will have plants next summer.

Arruda Furtado will send his mountain plants from Azores.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
[18 Sept 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 261.7: 11 (EH 88205936)
Summary:

JL’s address [Presidential Address, 31 Aug 1881, Rep. BAAS (1881): 1–51] has made him think about important steps in advancing geology. Lists major advances in his lifetime.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-09-19a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
19 September 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1871-81, f. 325
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-09-19b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Miles Berkeley
Date:
19 September 1881
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-81-09-19

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Mordecai Cooke
Date:
19 September 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Fungarium, In type cover for Mesophellia glauca, generic index 2.1.17.3.1The text is stamped with M. C. Cooke's herbarium stamp and accompanied by a note, dated 25.9.[19]79, signed with the initials RNH [R. N Hilton] : 'This letter, of 19.9.81, is from Baron Von Mueller, and must relate to the specimen Potoromyces loculatus. …'
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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