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DCP-LETT-1927

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 304
Summary:

Has reduced 20 Cyrena species to geographical varieties of one species, Cyrena fluminalis. Hooker is reducing Indian flora at the rate of 19 to 1.

Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1928

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[15 July 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 305
Summary:

Lists Lusitanian shells with wide ranges beyond that geographical province.

Antiquity and elevation of land mass is more important than latitude for the distribution of shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1388

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.36
Summary:

Comments on one of the magnetism experiments JH described in his letter of 1856-7-14.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5868

From:
Joseph Bullar
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.337
Summary:

Their whole family is grateful for JH's letter of sympathy to JB's father.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel719

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Alexander Stewart Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1856]
Source of text:
JHS 1.112
Summary:

Is concerned about the receipt of AH's accounts; lectures AH about the danger of moving into someone else's room [more luxurious] for the vacation; finally asks AH to discover who among the 'university-men' is color-blind, and to what degree.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7936

From:
John Welsh
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 July 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.139
Summary:

Describes R.S.L.'s compound magnet. Recommends cleaning and remagnetizing. Awaits JH's instructions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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