From:
William Darwin Fox
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1 June 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 205.7: 280
Summary:
Hybrid geese.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Hybrid geese.
ACVDdO asks CD to assist him in finding correspondents willing to provide British fossil shells for his proposed work, Paléontologie universelle, in exchange for parts of ACVDdO’s palaeontological works.
Is giving a series of lectures at the Collegiate Institution. Has made some interesting discoveries recently and has deposited a paper with Faraday for communication to the R.S.L. Comes to the conclusion that chemical action can be suspended by magnetic force. Comments on this.
JH's opinions about disruptive effect of tremors on observatory if proposed railway tunnel is built under Greenwich Park. Proposes method for adjusting train schedule to reduce interference with observations.