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FVM-59-08-10a

From:
Alexander Love
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 August 1859
Source of text:
MS 13071 Royal Society of Victoria Exploration Committee records, box 2075/5, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Tyndall1633

From:
Arthur-Auguste de la Rive
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 18 Aout, 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/1/360, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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HENSLOW-532

From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 August 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 78
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-08-24

From:
Clement Hodgkinson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 August 1859
Source of text:
Unit 3, p. 336, VPRS 7935/P1, outward letterbooks to the general public, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has an astonishing lot of mongrel poultry and expects next generation to approach Gallus bankiva in red-brown plumage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2479A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Hill
Date:
8 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Cundall 1915
Summary:

Compares Jamaican with British and European honey combs.

Requests one-half dozen dead bees and 2 or 3 drones from Mr Wilkie’s stock.

His admiration for RH’s varied accomplishments and service "in the sacred cause of humanity" [the abolition of slavery].

Asks whether it is believed that domestic animals long bred in Jamaica tend to assume a particular colour or character.

Are differences observed in the West Indies in the liability of pure Europeans of light complexion and hair to take the yellow fever or other tropical complaints?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2480

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 Aug 1859
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 46434)
Summary:

Will forward ARW’s "admirable" paper to Linnean Society ["On the zoological geography of the Malay Archipelago", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Zool.) 4 (1860): 172–84].

Discusses geographical distribution of animals in the Malay Archipelago; relation of distribution to depth of sea between islands.

Relation of Celebes to Africa almost passes belief.

Differs wholly from ARW on colonisation of oceanic islands; does not believe in Forbes’s great continental extensions.

Anticipates Owen’s opposition to their views, but "he is a poor reasoner & deeply considers the good opinion of the world, especially the aristocratic world".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2482

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
24 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Sorry to hear of AS’s poor health.

Would like to attend Aberdeen meeting [BAAS, 1859] but is unfit for so great an exertion. Has been told he has "suppressed gout".

Pleased that AS remembers their 1831 geological trip, which made CD appreciate the noble science of geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2483

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
25 [Aug 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 47
Summary:

Writes of a visit to Leith Hill and WED’s injured ankle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2484

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
31 Aug [1859]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff.58–59)
Summary:

Sheets [of Origin] up to p. 240 are ready. Asks how many copies and how soon JM will publish. Hopes as soon as possible because of his health. Bitterly disappointed at delay he has caused.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
9 August 1859
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 15-17
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 137-139]
  • Darwin, F. (1909). Some letters from Charles Darwin to Alfred Russel Wallace. Christ's College Magazine: 23(70): 214-231 [pp. 224-225]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7301

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 Aug [1859 or later]
Source of text:
DAR 105: B68
Summary:

Wonders whether CD would be interested in a book by Dr Bucknell [J. C. Bucknill?] on psychology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-59-08-15

From:
David Campbell
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
15 August 1859
Source of text:
M59/8403, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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HENSLOW-583

From:
Richard Dawes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
23 August 1859
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 112
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1065

From:
C. W. Dilke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
15 August 1859
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday3621

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
5 August 1859
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel14427

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1859]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0526.8; Reel 1093
Summary:

Notified Richard Owen that Kew observatory is ready to receive trainees for magnetic observations. Stewart Balfour estimates six weeks to train observers, who will then take instruments and leave for British Columbia or Shanghai. New observatory at University of Mississippi in U.S. American Association for the Advancement of Science has expressed interest in magnetic survey. Success in photographing sunspots, which R. C. Carrington and Warren de La Rue will supervise. Recent observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3622

From:
Faraday and Sarah Faraday
To:
John Barlow
Date:
10 August 1859
Source of text:
University of London Library MS AL 49b
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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FVM-59-08-00e

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Horne
Date:
August 1859
Source of text:
No. 4601, unit 5, VPRS 963 register of correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-59-08-00

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
August 1859
Source of text:
M59/7894, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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