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DCP-LETT-5311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
18 [Dec 1866]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for calling his attention to ancestry of guinea-fowl.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
18 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks for a letter on the tameness of deer, written by Commander A. Boutakoff to R. I. Murchison and printed in the Journal [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 23 (1853): 93–101].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11814

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.174
Summary:

Reports a second failure over the [Samuel] Parlby affair. Buried Ellen last Thursday. Unemployment and lack of food at Cape owing to the financial difficulties of the government. Difficulties over the standards now.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7766

From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[18 December 1866]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 15/5.3; Reel 11
Summary:

Gratitude for JH's gift to R.A.S. of William Herschel's manuscript series on observations of double stars. Encloses two pages of proofs for JH's approval.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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