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FVM-81-12-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
December 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-81-12-00d

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Frederick Bailey
Date:
December 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-81-12-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Linnean Society of London
Date:
December 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

DCP-LETT-13523F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugo de Vries
Date:
[Dec 1881?]
Source of text:
Artis Library (De Vries 10)
Summary:

Thanks for HdeV’s letter, which is a great relief to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13525A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Warde Norman
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 249: 107
Summary:

"I should be a strange creature if I did not feel real pleasure in seeing you." Recalls GWN’s kindness and assistance over forty years.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13525F

From:
James Paget, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0026/7/4)
Summary:

Thanks for Earthworms. Is going to Nice for a few weeks to recuperate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13524

From:
James Frederick Simpson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 169
Summary:

Thanks CD for offer of a copy of Earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13525

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:
1 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Sulivan family (private collection)
Summary:

Sends his subscription for the adopted Fuegian [James FitzRoy Button].

Feels very old and wishes he could be idle but finds himself miserable without any daily work.

Is reading Lyell’s biography [K. M. Lyell (1881)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP808

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Walter Raleigh Browne
Date:
2 December 1881
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-395945
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13526

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Paget, 1st baronet
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Is delighted with JP’s article on vivisection ["Vivisection: its pains and its uses, No. 1", Nineteenth Century 10 (1881): 920–30]. CD is "boiling over with indignation on the subject".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13528

From:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117
Summary:

Expresses his admiration for CD and his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13527

From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 177: 317
Summary:

BJS’s son has seen six Fuegians being exhibited in Berlin; BJS hopes that they might be bought from their master and returned to Tierra del Fuego.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederick Glyn Montagu Powell
Date:
[after 3 Dec 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 117v
Summary:

Thanks FGMP for his sympathetic and very kind letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP2628

From:
James William Barclay
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
4 December 1881
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46440 ff. 30-33
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0920

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
4 December 1881
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 279
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FVM-81-12-05a

From:
Alfred Howitt
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 December 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M11, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-81-12-05

From:
Frederick Bailey
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 December 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M5, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-13531

From:
Arthur Hall
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 166: 88
Summary:

Vegetable mould covering paving-stones in Oxfordshire lanes accumulated over 14 or 16 centuries.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13530

From:
Edmund Beecher Wilson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 181: 119
Summary:

Gives case of a mollusc, Scyllaea, which mimics the Sargassum on which it lives.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13533

From:
Julius Victor Carus
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Dec 1881
Source of text:
DAR 161: 116
Summary:

Lists errata in Earthworms, which he is translating.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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