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DCP-LETT-2778

From:
Bernard Peirce Brent
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[May–June 1860?]
Source of text:
DAR 160.3: 297
Summary:

Cannot supply a case of atavism in canaries.

Will lend CD back issues of Cottage Gardener.

Cites case of bird (tumbler hen) laying egg in another’s nest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
1 May [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7400)
Summary:

Much obliged for note from Alexander von Keyserling. Geologist going one inch with CD more important than naturalist going two or three.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3769

From:
P.M. Henschikoff
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 May 1860
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel11097

From:
J. Jackson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 May 1860]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.432
Summary:

Sending a printed circular on his proposed change in the currency.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8930

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[1 May 1860]
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #1697 (May 5, 1860), 617 & John Taylor, The Great Pyramid, 2nd. ed. (
Summary:

[Following up on JH's 1860-4-23,] notes another numerical relationship between the dimensions of the Great Pyramid and those of the earth.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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