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FVM-86-12-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Maurice Holtze
Date:
December 1886
Source of text:
GRG 19/391, Public Library, Museum & Art Gallery, State Records of South Australia, Adelaide
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-86-12-00a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Tepper
Date:
December 1886
Source of text:
RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-86-12-00b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Tepper
Date:
December 1886
Source of text:
RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Dated to December on the basis of the Christmas greeting included, and to 1886 on the basis of the reference to completing the list of Kangaroo Island plants and Tepper’s annotation on this list (in this edition as 86-12-00c)
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-86-12-00c

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Otto Tepper
Date:
December 1886
Source of text:
RB MSS M198, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP5227

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William James
Date:
[December?] 1886
Source of text:
  • Houghton Library, Harvard University: MS Am 1092 (1149-1151)
  • Roback, A. A. (1942). In: William James: His Marginalia, Personality and Contribution. Cambridge, Mass.: Sci-Art Publishers. [pp. 98-101]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP428

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
[December] [1886]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/8
Summary:

A séance at which he observed the ghosts of an Indian man and a baby; travel by sleeping-car from Baltimore; white and black populations in Boston and Baltimore.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP429

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
William Greenell Wallace [ARW's son]
Date:
December 1886
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/5/10
Summary:

Visit to Prof Morse at Salem, Morse's Japanese artefacts and books, his 15 year old son's weekly natural history club meetings and collections of flints, shells and insects; visit to Prof Marsh at Newhaven Connecticut, his fossil collection including great animal skulls and skeletons; explosion of rotten ostrich egg in Marsh's museum (Peabody Museum, Yale); ARW's lecture to ladies' college at Poughkeepsie; route of travel to Baltimore via New York. Newhaven landscape; Prof. Marsh's 10 acre grounds and house of his own design with octagonal sitting room and rooms displaying china and artefacts including American Indian scalps and heads of animals shot by Marsh; Marsh's travels in the Rocky Mountains; Baltimore park, streets and buildings; Maryland a Slave state before the war, many people black, antics of waiters in hotels.

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Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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