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DCP-LETT-1813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Will attend the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club] if he possibly can.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Horner
Date:
[1856–7]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks LH for memorandum [missing] by K. R. Lepsius.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1158

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Stanley Jevons
Date:
[1856 or later?]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.14.16
Summary:

Not aware of any experiments to ascertain the amount of personal error in the estimate of time of a star transit. JH then comments on monetary matters including the value and gold equivalence of sovereigns issued by the Mint.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1936

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1856 or later]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.13
Summary:

A note indicating JH's willingness to say a few words.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2538

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
[1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.448 (C: RS:HS 23.185)
Summary:

Discusses AS's new book [Synopsis of the Classification of the British Palaeozoic Rocks...]. Wishes to have the completed work sent to him and sends congratulations on its completion. JH's health is improving.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1170

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Professor Charles Cardale Babington
Date:
?-?-1856?
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.134, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

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Contributor:
Hooker Project
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