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FVM-81-10-00d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
October 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
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FVM-81-10-00a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
James Kirkland
Date:
October 1881
Source of text:
MS 12521 Victorian Horticultural Society, box 3401, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-10-00

From:
John Brown
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
October 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M59, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FL-0031

From:
Darwin, W. E.
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
[c. 1 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13368

From:
Julius Wiesner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 98
Summary:

Sends copy of his Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen [1881]. Disagrees with CD about plant movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0914

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
2 October [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 273
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13369

From:
Peter Beveridge
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 179
Summary:

Regarding CD’s paper ["Inheritance", Nature 24 (1881): 257; he comments on absence of black sheep at his father’s sheep station.

Notes that the repeated brandings of sheep produce no inherited effect, and a woman’s withered leg was not inherited by her children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13370

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 518
Summary:

Will send copies [of Earthworms] shortly. Troubled by rumour of a mysterious copy in hands of a reviewer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-81-10-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Parkes
Date:
3 October 1881
Source of text:
ML A70, pp. 226-9, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-10-03a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hemsley
Date:
3 October 1881
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Letters to W. B. Hemsley, vol. 2 (Moo-Zah), ff. 7-8
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP4473

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Raphael Meldola
Date:
4 October 1881
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 125
Summary:

Will not stay with Meldola, but invites him to Godalming for the weekend instead. Wants his advice about gas stoves.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13371

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julius Wiesner
Date:
4 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 148: 357
Summary:

Thanks JW for book [Das Bewegungsvermögen der Pflanzen (1881)]. Discusses movement in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13372

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 143: 295
Summary:

Glad book [Earthworms] will soon be published.

G. J. Romanes has copy and often writes reviews for Nature. Probably did not know it was incorrect to publish it prematurely.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13373

From:
William Graham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 165: 85
Summary:

WG is a candidate for a new chair at University College, Liverpool. Asks CD’s permission to use extracts from his letter [13230] for a testimonial.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13373F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
5 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Rick Northwood (private collection)
Summary:

Has resolved never to write for periodicals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13319

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Howard Darwin
Date:
6 [Oct 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.1: 110
Summary:

Is obliged to GHD for arranging everything.

Sorry about the proof-sheets.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13376

From:
John Shaw Billings
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 15
Summary:

Asks whether he and W. M. Ord may call on CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13374

From:
Robert Francis Cooke; John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1881
Source of text:
DAR 171: 519
Summary:

Murray has sold 1200 copies [of Earthworms], so another printing of 500 is proposed. Has CD any corrections to send?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0034

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
[7 or 11 October 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 26
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-13325F

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[7 Oct 1881]
Source of text:
Cornford Family Papers (DAR 275: 104)
Summary:

Asks for two property valuations. Is afraid he has made a mistake in CD’s property settlements.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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