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DCP-LETT-756

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 8 June 1844]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 23, 8 June 1844, p. 380
Summary:

Sends a quotation from de Vallemont’s Curiosities of nature and art in husbandry and gardening (1707) showing that the value of saltpetre in manure and the advantage of steeping seeds in specially prepared liquid manure were well known at the time.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8158

From:
H. T. Winther
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 June 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.426
Summary:

Has developed a new process for making photographs that are better than the Daguerreotype. HW would like to sell the process [patent?] to someone in England.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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