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From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Forster, L. M.
Date:
12 October [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 417
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?
Has calculated the ecliptic of Thucydides. Comments on this and the reading given by E. W. Hartwig. Regarding the 7 eclipses of the sun during the past 30 years. G. Bishop's assistant (W. Plummer) is investigating the orbit of the great comet of 1861. Nautical Almanac for 1874 delayed due to extra work on the transit of Venus.
Corrects a misunderstanding about the date to which magnetic observations are to be reduced.
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