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DCP-LETT-667

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
31 Mar [1843]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 118
Summary:

Congratulates FitzRoy on his appointment as Governor of New Zealand. Wants to see him and his wife before their departure. Proposes to call on them in London next Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1481

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Jacob Herbert
Date:
31 March 1843
Source of text:
GL MS 30108A/1, p.198
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel8839

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Henry Fox Talbot
Date:
[31 March 1843]
Source of text:
Science Museum Talbt 1/36 (C: RS:HS 22.151)
Summary:

Zodiacal light is a real phenomenon. Further comments on negative to positive process. Questions whether WT can define one cometary orbit with two observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8891

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the London Times
Date:
[31 March 1843]
Source of text:
London Times (April 4, 1843), p. 6, col. 1
Summary:

Argues against the view that what JH has taken to be the tail of a comet [Great Comet of 1843] is actually due to the zodiacal light.

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John Herschel Project
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