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From:
A. N. Grant
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
20 May 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M113, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Apr 1881
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913 , pp. 281–2
Summary:
Is mapping coral distribution on the Tortugas reef. His observations on the Florida peninsula suggest that it was built up from the debris of animal remains and was not elevated.
Contributor:
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From:
Alexander Agassiz
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 May 1881
Source of text:
G. R. Agassiz ed. 1913 , pp. 284–6
Summary:
Discusses the structure and formation of the Florida peninsula. Part played by marine animals in building banks on which coral can thrive.
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Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Alfred Howitt
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
5 December 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M11, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Alfred Selwyn
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
2 September 1881
Source of text:
Record group 45, vol. 78, p. 347, National Archives of Canada, Ottawa
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 47
Summary:
Thanks for compliments on Evolutionist at large.
Reports on his improving health.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Grant Blairfindie (Grant) Allen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Dec [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 48
Summary:
Thanks for copy of Origin with its flattering inscription.
Hopes some day to have leisure to do original research.
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Text Online
From:
Andrew Grant
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
March 1881
Source of text:
RB MSS M113, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 June 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114b, 114c
Summary:
Offers his services to CD as an observer in the Azores. Has studied the local natural history and is a great disciple of CD’s.
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114a
Summary:
Many thanks for CD’s advice and suggestions. His letter is a great source of encouragement.
Contributor:
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 159: 114d
Summary:
Has been collecting on the mountain summits and wants someone with whom to communicate about plants.
Contributor:
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0032)
Summary:
Thanks CD for sending Wallace’s book [see 13313]
and for writing to Hooker about FdeAF’s plants. Has written to Hooker to tell him of the plants he is sending and discuss the subject of the cypress trunks.
Thanks CD for his detailed instructions for suggested experiments.
Contributor:
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Oct 1881
Source of text:
Historical Archive of the Museums of the University of Lisbon (PT/MUL/FAF/C/01/0036)
Summary:
Reports having found orthopteran egg-cases, affixed to a chalk statuette, that had themselves been coated with chalk, without doubt by the insect that deposited them.
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From:
Francisco de Arruda Furtado
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
21 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence 181/39)
Summary:
The statues on which the egg-cases were found were perfectly clean and had never been painted.
Reports on fossilised leaf-prints he has found on the island. Found no seeds or land shells at the site.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Asher & Co.
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Nov 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
An enclosure for CD has arrived from the Academy of Sciences in Vienna: please can CD send a postal order for 4s.
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From:
Edward Bibbens Aveling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Aug 1881
Source of text:
DAR 202: 10
Summary:
Sends a copy of his book [The student’s Darwin (1881)]. Hopes he may be forgiven for carrying his reasoning further than CD may allow.
Contributor:
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From:
Edward Bibbens Aveling
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Sept [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 159: 134
Summary:
Ludwig Büchner is in London. Requests interview for him with CD on Wednesday or Thursday; he leaves Friday.
Contributor:
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From:
Spencer Fullerton Baird
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 May 1881
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Smithsonian Archives: Record Unit 33, Volume 111)
Summary:
Introduces Capt. George Montague Wheeler of the US Engineers, who has charge of the government expedition west of the 100th meridian.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Jan [1881]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 28
Summary:
Will gladly translate Krause’s letter for Nature; denounces Butler’s book attacking CD.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Francis Maitland Balfour
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 July 1881
Source of text:
DAR 160: 30
Summary:
Thanks for suggesting that a spare copy of his book [Treatise on comparative embryology (1880–1)] be sent to Fritz Müller.
Contributor:
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