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WCP269

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
3 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/68
Summary:

Orchids, some from General Dunn about to flower; visit from Doveton, a poet and psychical researcher from Torquay; Violet's brother William in Hull; Ma's (Annie Wallace) eyes improving; poor health of Miss Marshall Hall; arrival of bacon but no bill; regards to Eleanor; instructions to send her brother William the "Jungle Books".

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC504

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
8 March 1896
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.147, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH writes to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer [WTTD], sending his reassurances regarding an operation WTTD's mother is having. JDH recalls, in general terms, his difficulties with printers & publishers mentioning both Soper, & Reeve. JDH does not have any of the Tibetan instruments WTTD wants. The only artefact he has from his travels is a brass pipe which he smoked during his imprisonment. JDH asks if WTTD wants him to return an [inscribed slab'. JDH mentions that the British Museum want to buy a portrait of Robert Brown from JDH, but it will first be offered for sale to RBG Kew & the Royal Society.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP4400

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
8 March 1896
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 53
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 53
Summary:

About Romanes. Has sent review of Cope's new book to Nature, also review of Archdall Reid's The Present Evolution of Man.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1619

From:
Herrera, Alfonso Luis & Aguilar y Santillán, Rafael
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
10 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/303
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-96-03-11

From:
Ignatz Urban
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
11 March 1896
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-96-03-13

From:
William Fitzgerald
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
13 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London, Museum Archives, TM1/21/24 Mueller
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

JHC936

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Reverend James Digues de La Touche
Date:
14 March 1896
Source of text:
JDH/2/12 f.124, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP4401

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
15 March 1896
Source of text:
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 54
  • Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 54
Summary:

About his collection of moths. Poulton wants to know where they went. About the organisation of his collection, Romanes and Darwin. Wants to give his copy of Cope's Origin of the Fittest to Linnean or Zoological Society.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000569

From:
Edward Frankland
To:
Henry Edward Armstrong
Date:
16 March 1896
Source of text:
MM/10/101, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP270

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
18 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/69
Summary:

Galton's work on visualisation; Violet's preference for snails over orchids; her Literary Society; Tolstoy's letter in the previous day's Chronicle; books, recommends J Muir and Besant; visiting poet (Doveton).

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1740

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Philip Lutley Sclater
Date:
20 March 1896
Source of text:
Zoological Society of London: GB 0814 BADW
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

JHC505

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:
21 March 1896
Source of text:
JDH/2/16 f.148, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

JDH offers his assistance to Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer in the matter of the RBG Kew library catalogue. [Sir John?] Evans has approached JDH about a scheme for transferring RBG Kew's Cryptogamic collection to the British Museum [of Natural History]. JDH would not discuss the matter with Evans but informs WTTD of his strong objection to breaking up the RBG Kew herbarium collection built up by JDH & his father, Sir William Jackson Hooker. He suspects Evans wanted to relocate the Musci & algae in particular. JDH describes the herbarium in total as representing the 'Botany of the Century' & says to divide it would be 'emasculation'. Particularly considering WJH's early career as a cryptogamist & JDH's own publications & collections from Antarctica.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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WCP273

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Violet Isabel Wallace
Date:
25 March 1896
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/2/72
Summary:

Visit to Parkstone to see her brother William; bacon.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000443

From:
Joseph John Thomson
To:
Alfred William Porter
Date:
26 March 1896
Source of text:
MM/9/22, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP4402

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
26 March 1896
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 55
Summary:

Higgins succeeded Stevens. More about where ARW's collection went. Round labels are ARW's. Moe about Cope book - would prefer it to go to Linnean.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FL-0574

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Sara
Date:
28 March 1896
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 297
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

RS-MM-001204

From:
George Trenchard Goodenough
To:
Robert Harrison, Assistant Secretary, Royal Society.
Date:
28 March 1896
Source of text:
MM/17/71, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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WCP4403

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Edward Bagnall Poulton
Date:
30? March 1896
Source of text:
Hope Entomological Library, Oxford University Museum of Natural History: ARW 56
Summary:

Hewitson resetting butterflies and removing the tickets. ARW's private collection would only have had round tickets used for the locality.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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FVM-96-03-31

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Casimir de Candolle
Date:
31 March 1896
Source of text:
Bibliothèque des Conservatoire et Jardin botaniques, Geneva
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-96-04-01

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Alexander Macdonald
Date:
1 April 1896
Source of text:
A38, Royal Geographical Society of Australasia (Victorian Branch), Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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