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FVM-58-12-16

From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 December 1858
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 193, VPRS 4366 outward letter books of registered correspondence, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-59-10-07

From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
7 October 1859
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 287, VPRS 4366 outward letter books of registered correspondence, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-59-10-24

From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 October 1859
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 289, VPRS 4366 outward letter books of registered correspondence, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-59-12-06

From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
6 December 1859
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 295, VPRS 4366 outward letter books of registered correspondence, VA 912 Trustees of the Public Library, Museums and National Gallery, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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FVM-M55-12-31

From:
Carl Wilhelmi
To:
William Hooker
Date:
31 December 1855
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXIV, Australia letters 1851-8, no. 233
Summary:

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FVM-59-10-22

From:
Charles Ledger
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
22 October 1859
Source of text:
L59/10938, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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FVM-57-08-10

From:
Charles Pasley
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 August 1857
Source of text:
No. 57/2453, unit 3, p. 409, VPRS 975/P1 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-57-09-10a

From:
Charles Pasley
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 September 1857
Source of text:
No. 57/2908, unit 4, p. 9, VPRS 975/P1 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Public Works Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-59-11-10a

From:
Charles Pasley
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 November 1859
Source of text:
No. 59/3697, unit 4, p. 257, VPRS 975/P2 outward registered correspondence, VA 669 Department of Public Works, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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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:

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DCP-LETT-1285

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
[Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 201)
Summary:

Thanks WJH for information about J. D. Hooker; CD was very anxious to hear something about his safety.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
22 May [1850]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 200)
Summary:

Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1738

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
11 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence DC/35/129)
Summary:

Has left a book from Henslow for JDH at Athenaeum.

When Asa Gray wrote, did he send marked sheets [of his Manual of botany]?

Has just made out "new & wonderful" specific character between two of his pigeon breeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2003

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 684)
Summary:

Asks GB for help in clearing up his problems about Leguminosae, in connection with his "wild bit of speculation on the crossing of plants" [see Natural selection, p. 71].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2005

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 685)
Summary:

Thanks GB for information on Leguminosae, especially about those with apetalous flowers and almost without anthers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2010

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
3 Dec [1856]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 687)
Summary:

Thanks GB for information on apetalous flowers. "The whole order [Leguminosae] will remain my detestable enemies."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2177

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
1 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: ff. 682–3)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his help on naturalised plants; comments on spreading of plants.

Wants to quote GB on the names of species and varieties of Silene on which C. F. von Gärtner experimented.

Thinks GB will be disappointed in his book [Natural selection]. "It will be grievously too hypothetical."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2184

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
15 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 681
Summary:

For his studies on fertility of crosses, asks GB to mark a list of pairs of Cucubalus as to whether they are varieties of the same species, or distinct species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2189

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
18 Dec [1857]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 700a)
Summary:

Thanks GB for his answers [to 2184], which were as explicit as he expected. Cucubalus viscosus and italicus are extremely sterile together; all other forms extremely fertile. Other instances of infertility found by Gärtner.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

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