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DCP-LETT-2979

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
10 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 143)
Summary:

On the prospectus of Natural History Review. Suggests it might offer information on whether subjects that correspondents may wish to investigate have been done already.

Henrietta still very seriously ill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2980

From:
Edward Cresy, Jr
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1860
Source of text:
DAR 58.1: 7, 9
Summary:

Explains discrepancies in weights and measures caused by changes since 1836 in apothecaries’ measures.

EC has found that a discrepancy in A. W. von Hofmann’s experiments with iodine solutions resulted from an error in Hofmann’s use of decimals.

Reports S. P. Woodward’s opinion of the Origin: "a very sad book, it unsettles all one’s religious principles and the worst of it is so much of it is true".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2981

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Nov [1860]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A83–4
Summary:

The stone hatchets are a great muddle. Would like a copy of Jacques Boucher [de Crèvecoeur] de Perthes’s book [Antiquités Celtiques et antédiluviennes (1847–64)].

Is studying action of carbonate of ammonia on Drosera. Asks if this has been done.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday3886

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Alfred Barnes
Date:
10 November 1860
Source of text:
SI D MS 554 A
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-575

From:
John Evans
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 November 1860
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 156
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

Tyndall1744

From:
Juliet Pollock
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 10th 1860
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/170; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1971, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1745

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
10th Nov. 1860
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1134; MS JT/1/TYP/6/1970, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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FVM-60-11-10a

From:
Alexander Walker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 November 1860
Source of text:
MEL 20337, National Herbarium of Victoria, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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