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DCP-LETT-919

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 Oct [1845]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.46)
Summary:

Discusses American Negroes and their parasitic lice. Henry Denny’s need for lice specimens.

Discusses effects of racial crosses in man.

Describes his trip to Yorkshire.

Comments on Sedgwick’s review [of Vestiges of creation].

Mentions Humboldt’s Kosmos. Criticises Humboldt’s geology.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-920

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[8 Oct 1845]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 43
Summary:

Sorry to hear JDH did not get Edinburgh chair. Invites him to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel119

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 October 1845]
Source of text:
RGO 6.675.522
Summary:

How does one jog the memory of the First Lord of the Treasury [see GA's 1845-10-3]?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6504

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Spencer J. A. Compton
Date:
[8 October 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.250
Summary:

Concerned about delay in government decision about magnetic observatories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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