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FVM-61-11-16

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 November 1861
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a published copy of extracts of this letter see Daley (1927-8) p. 98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
16 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday4104

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
16 November 1861
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/3/111.45-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4673

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Scot Skirving
Date:
16 Nov [1861-8]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 481
Summary:

Knows nothing of the habits of earwigs. Thinks Edward Newman may be trusted on the point [as to whether or not earwigs can fly].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9033

From:
William Whewell
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.218
Summary:

Expresses happiness that JH's health has improved and comments on various family matters.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-0310

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[17 November 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 90
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-3320

From:
William Erasmus Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.5: 3
Summary:

Describes in detail his day at home and at the bank in Southampton.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 131
Summary:

JDH’s letter on grounds of generalisation in plant morphology.

Faunal distribution and the glacial period.

Orchid homologies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 197)
Summary:

Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-11-18

From:
Edmund Newbould
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 November 1861
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, Box 2078/2, 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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Faraday4105

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jabez Hogg
Date:
18 November 1861
Source of text:
RCS MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1829

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
19 Novr 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/225, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4106

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
19 November 1861
Source of text:
RI MS RI CG/4/1/56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Dorothy Fanny Walpole; Dorothy Fanny Nevill
Date:
19 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Declines invitation to visit DN’s orchid collection. Thanks for orchids and list [of available plants]. Requests a few more spikes of Bolbophyllum, particularly of species with irritable labellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
20 [Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 132
Summary:

JDH asked to check Lindley on Acropera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE530

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
20 Nov 1861
Source of text:
141, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel2558

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.567
Summary:

Sends series of solar heliographs. If further suggestions for improvement of these are noted, please send them. Is preparing to photograph Dec. 31 eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1830

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
21st Nov. 1861
Source of text:
HS 17.389; MS JT/1/TYP/2/509-511, RS; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3568

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.389 (C: RI 509-11)
Summary:

Gives account of observations on lunar radiation, including detailed description of experiments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 133
Summary:

Transport of an orchid to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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