From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[22 Nov 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 133
Summary:
Transport of an orchid to Down.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Transport of an orchid to Down.
Has no suggestions to improve photographs. Wants to determine whether the degradation of light from center to edge of sun is 'real.' Does not think sun's size affects focus.
Does not believe surface of moon can radiate cold; perhaps new moon can. Explains this geometrically.
No summary available.