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DCP-LETT-357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
[21 Jan 1838]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 37190: 320)
Summary:

Asks Babbage to take small parcel to Henslow.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-400

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[21 Jan 1838]
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (Dreer collection)
Summary:

Sends rock specimen for W. H. Miller. Asks JSH to see whether there is any geology in P. B. Webb and Sabin Berthelot, Histoire naturelle des Îles Canaries [1835–50]. Finds his work on geology growing so large that it will take more than one volume and asks whether this will make publication aid more difficult.

Has accepted Secretaryship of the Geological Society.

Will not come to Cambridge because "as long as I continue well I cannot bear to leave my work for half a day".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12132

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Thomas Maclear
Date:
[21 January 1838]
Source of text:
RS:HS 21.240
Summary:

On the variability of Alpha Hydrae and some other stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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