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FVM-65-07-29b

From:
Arthur Morrah
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
29 July 1865
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 647, VPRS 7936/P1 outward letterbooks of the Secretary for Lands, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
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FVM-61-04-04

From:
Augustus Tulk
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
4 April 1861
Source of text:
No. 145, unit 2, p. 68, 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-64-08-24a

From:
Carl Wilhelmi and Theodor Mueller
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
24 August 1864
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 148
Summary:

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FVM-64-08-18

From:
Charles Darling
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 August 1864
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 242, VPRS 1093 Governor's minute books, VA 466 Governor, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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FVM-60-11-01a

From:
Charles Ledger
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
1 November 1860
Source of text:
Q60/10079, unit 748, VPRS 1189/P inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria.For a lightly-edited copy of this letter, correcting some of Ledger’s occasionally idiosyncratic spellings, see Argus, 3 November 1860, p. 5
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FVM-63-02-23b

From:
Clement Hodgkinson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
23 February 1863
Source of text:
63/831, unit 15, p. 648, 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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FVM-64-09-12

From:
Clement Hodgkinson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
12 September 1864
Source of text:
Unit 1, pp. 349-52, VPRS 7936/P1 outward letter books of the Secretary for Lands, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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FVM-65-05-30

From:
Clement Hodgkinson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 May 1865
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 619, VPRS 7936/P1 outward letterbooks of the Secretary for Lands, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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FVM-65-07-25a

From:
Clement Hodgkinson
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
25 July 1865
Source of text:
Unit 1, p. 645, VPRS 7936/P1 outward letterbooks of the Secretary for Lands, VA 538 Department of Crown Lands and Survey, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
17 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 697)
Summary:

Asks for specimen of Orchis pyramidalis for his work on insect fertilisation of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3193

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
22 June [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 692)
Summary:

Thanks GB for specimen [of Orchis pyramidalis].

Discusses a great difficulty with orchids: "Insects visit several species which never secrete an atom of honey." [See Orchids, p. 44ff.] Does GB know whether nectar is ever secreted and reabsorbed promptly?

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DCP-LETT-3227

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
6 Aug [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 698)
Summary:

Bentham has sent a damaged spurless Orchis pyramidalis; asks CL to send another. Fears they are irregular monsters. [See Orchids, pp. 47–8.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
18 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 193)
Summary:

Thanks JL for identifying Catasetum saccatum.

Writes of his interest ("more than almost anything in my life") in orchids, but fears he is rash to publish.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
25 Oct [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 194)
Summary:

Sends thanks for an informative letter;

would be grateful for any orchids; names some he would particularly like.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
1 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 195)
Summary:

CD is sending an orchid flower; asks JL to identify it.

Also asks if JL can spare a dried flower of another orchid (name forgotten) [which CD describes] so that he can try to trace its ducts or spiral vessels.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
9 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 693)
Summary:

Thanks GB for arranging for his paper ["Two forms of Primula", Collected papers 2: 45–63] and for his photograph.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
16 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 196)
Summary:

CD sends thanks for many valuable dried specimens [of orchids]. Has been promised Catasetum and some Dendrobium by Mr Rucker; has written also to Lady Dorothy [Nevill].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lindley
Date:
17 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Lindley letters, A–K: 197)
Summary:

Lady Dorothy [Nevill] has written very obligingly and sent a lot of orchids.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688
Summary:

Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-3330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
26 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 689)
Summary:

Would prefer to have Primula paper published in the Linnean Society’s Journal rather than Transactions.

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