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DCP-LETT-13844

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
Date:
30 July [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1))
Summary:

Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3646

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
Date:
8 [Aug 1862]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.2)
Summary:

Asks HCW’s help with his experiments on Lythrum salicaria, for which he needs flowers of the rare Lythrum hyssopifolia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermanus Hartogh Heijs van Zouteveen
Date:
21 Feb 1871
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(2))
Summary:

Thanks HHHvZ for a memoir

and answers some queries;

mentions some corrections for his Dutch translation of Descent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8010

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Bartlett
Date:
15 Oct [1871]
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(3))
Summary:

Asks for information on feeding habits of Egyptian goose.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11019

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Otto Georg Moritz (Otto) Busch
Date:
26 June 1877
Source of text:
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7)
Summary:

Thanks OB for his work on Schopenhauer [Arthur Schopenhauer. Beitrag zu einer Dogmatik der Religionslosen (1877)]

and for his remarks on bees and clover. When CD spoke, last spring, of the few seeds produced by red clover, he supposed it was due to rarity of humble-bees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11622

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Pierre Louis Eugène (Eugène) Dupuy
Date:
21 July 1878
Source of text:
Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (4))
Summary:

Considers Brown-Séquard’s discovery of inheritance of injury to nerves most important hereditary observation ever. Extremely interested in correspondent’s confirmation. Impressed that in reported cases of inherited injury suppuration tends to follow the injury.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13792

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[Oct 1874 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 62.10.1)
Summary:

CD cannot come to London to sit for photograph. Sends one taken by son [Leonard], which family considers the best likeness. CD would be glad to give a sitting at Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-60-11-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
[Henry Edwards]
Date:
5 November 1860
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-71-11-29

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Louis Agassiz
Date:
29 November 1871
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
Text Online

FVM-73-02-03

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Henry Edwards
Date:
3 February 1873
Source of text:
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Agassiz Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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