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DCP-LETT-3194

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
23 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 99: 3–4
Summary:

Offers CD a live Proteus anguinus from Adelsberg cave. In his hands it will have a fair chance of developing into "some type of Columbidae (say a pouter or tumbler)".

The Origin is universally praised in Italy and Germany, even by those who disagree with it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13266

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[23 June 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0523; Reel 1053
Summary:

AH's college exams. Prefers that AH come home, rather than JH coming to Clapham and using Charles Pritchard's astronomy instruments. Describes 'revolving reflector' that JH designed for studying star spectra. Margaret and Duncan Stewart are coming to Clapham tomorrow for races. Many visitors at Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13720

From:
Alexander Bridport Becher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0075; Reel 1087
Summary:

Regrets delay in paying JH's expenses for visitation of Royal Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3196

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Falconer
Date:
24 [June 1861]
Source of text:
Bellmans (dealers) (5 December 2019, lot 632)
Summary:

Thanks HF for offer of valuable specimen, but CD has no aquarium. Suggests the Zoological Society would be the best place for it.

Will keep HF’s note among a very few precious letters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-06-24a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alfred Howitt
Date:
24 June 1861
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee, box 2088/5, letter copy book, pp.30-4, 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-61-06-24

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Robert O'Hara Burke
Date:
24 June 1861
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee, box 2088/5, letter copy book pp. 37-9, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel10492

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.370
Summary:

Sends his calculation of the number of days from the commencement of the Julian period to 1 Jan. 1801; the result agrees with that of JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3195

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
24 June [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 40d (EH 88206453)
Summary:

There have been delays, but William Darwin’s banking position is nearly settled.

Is going to Torquay, where he will write up his work on orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8583

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Walter White
Date:
[24 June 1861]
Source of text:
Columbia Univ. Library
Summary:

Asks that various papers by JH be sent along with the R.S.P.T. to four foreign locations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10855

From:
Sir Joseph D. Hooker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.206
Summary:

Father is unable to write so he has to thank him for his letter and the offer of Leucadendron seeds. Will try some experiments with them. Comments on some of C. R. Darwin's theories. Has he tried the Peruvian potato experiment? Does not remember a Camellia fruiting.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3197

From:
Robert Colgate
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 June 1861
Source of text:
DAR 76 (ser. 2): 171–2
Summary:

Notes observations on the spread of bees in New Zealand and their importance as pollinators of clover and other introduced plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-06-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
August Petermann
Date:
25 June 1861
Source of text:
Briefsammlung, Archiv, Justus Perthes' Verlag, Gotha
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-06-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 June 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-06-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 June 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 133
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel6838

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 June 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.148
Summary:

Gives diameter of the sun's image. Used an ordinary eye-piece. There must be some mistake about the penumbra. It is possible now to take daily records of the surface of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1791

From:
William Snow Harris
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
26 June 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/475, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3197F

From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
George Gordon
Date:
27 June 1861
Source of text:
Elgin Museum (Gordon Archive 61.9)
Summary:

Regrets he cannot assist the fulfilment of CD’s request for a specimen of the orchid Corallorhiza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-06-28

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
the Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee
Date:
28 June 1861
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee, box 2081/1 (f), La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1792

From:
Johann Christian Poggendorff
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
28 Juni 61.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/130, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-61-06-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Wilkie
Date:
29 June 1861
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee, box 2081/1(f), 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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