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FL-0297

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[16 February 1860]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 54
Summary:

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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

DCP-LETT-2677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Neil Arnott
Date:
16 Feb [1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 22
Summary:

Discusses NA’s pamphlet on human progress. Suggests making it a book [A survey of human progress (1861)].

Comments on study of dead languages.

Denies that animals are "governed only by selfish motives".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8178

From:
George Paxton Young
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.445
Summary:

Sends published paper containing GY's proof that roots of algebraic equations above fourth degree cannot be represented by finite functions, and showing how roots of fifth degree equations may be found. GY's method may be extended to all higher degrees.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-60-02-16

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
16 February 1860
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 121
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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