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DCP-LETT-3350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
24 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 199)
Summary:

Delayed thanking JL for two notes until he heard from Hooker about Acropera luteola; had no idea A. luteola was not a well-known name.

Cites his reasons for identifying A. loddigesii as male; hopes for a Gongora flower from Hooker which, JL suggested, may be the female.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-12-25

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
25 December 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 48a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-12-25b

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
René Lenormand
Date:
25 December 1861
Source of text:
Museum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Laboratoire de Phanerogamie, Paris
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-12-25a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
25 December 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 140
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-61-12-26

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
26 December 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 141
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1844

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Nevil Story-Maskelyne
Date:
26th Dec 1861
Source of text:
DF 15/2, Natural History Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel12060

From:
Roderick Impey Murchison
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.426
Summary:

Thanks for the copy of JH's Physical Geography. Comments on some of the sections of this work, especially the Weald. Sends his own paper on the 'Permian.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4213

From:
Ann Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 December [1861?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.223
Summary:

W. H. Smyth publishes essay. Sends family photographs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1846

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
27th Decr 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/1/S/227, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3351

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 138
Summary:

Seeks information on heating hothouses night and day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1845

From:
William Hopkins
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Dec. 27/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/2/644-5, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel2506

From:
Angelo Secchi
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.415
Summary:

Sends bulletins of the Observatory, which contain both meteorological and astronomical information. Asks JH if experiments are worth pursuing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3352

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
28 [Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 139
Summary:

Gongora cannot be female of Acropera; it may itself be a male.

Hopes Daniel Oliver will "sink Atlantis" in his Royal Institution lecture.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
28 Dec [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 200)
Summary:

Thanks JL for information about Acropera luteola.

Also thanks for the Gongora; cannot avoid the impression it is male.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-M61-12-28

From:
Thomas Elliot
To:
William Hooker
Date:
28 December 1861
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Colonial floras, Kewensia, K9/655.59. f. 64
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3374

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 1, 2a–c
Summary:

Asks CD whether he hears from Asa Gray. JDH’s opinion of the crisis [Trent case, Nov 1861] and the American Civil War.

Julius von Haast alludes to glacial drift in Middle Island of New Zealand.

Backwardness of JDH’s son, Willy.

Encloses a reference from Daniel Oliver which may be useful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1847

From:
John Tyndall
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
29th Dec. 1861
Source of text:
MS JT/T1398, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3375

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[30 Dec] 1861 or [6 Jan] 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 3–4
Summary:

Glad CD has given up on Acropera ovules.

Doubts phanerogams less different in extreme forms [than Crustacea].

No systematic parallelism between plants and animals.

Offers list of Arctic plants with their colours. Asks CD whether it is useful to add colour to [descriptions of] plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3576

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
30 and 31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 115: 83a
Summary:

Asks JDH to arrange for some melastomads to be sent to him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-3354

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Dec 1861
Source of text:
DAR 110 (ser. 2): 65, DAR 165: 104–105
Summary:

Discusses dimorphism and suggests CD investigate Valeriana.

Praises CD’s views with respect to the U. S. Civil War and relations with England. Worsening relations between Britain and U. S.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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