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FL-0313

From:
Darwin, H. E.
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[10–12 December 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 93
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

SOMERVILLE531

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray
Date:
10 Dec 1861
Source of text:
143, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel12817

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Lee
Date:
[10 December 1861]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0223; Reel 1054
Summary:

Grateful for JL's support of JH's son [?] for R.A.S. membership, but JH advised [son] not to apply until [son] had made some significant contribution to astronomy worthy of membership. [JH annotation: How different from today, when election is so easy.]

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1937

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[husband of Lady Mildred?]
Date:
[10 December 1861]
Source of text:
DMC 695A.885.14 (C: DMC.695A.885.16)
Summary:

Due to poor health of both JH and his wife, Margaret, JH writes to decline an invitation to dinner.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1838

From:
Heinrich Gustav Magnus
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
d. 10 Decemb 61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/M/26, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP377

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Henry Walter Bates
Date:
10 December 1861
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/52
  • Clodd, E. (Ed). (1892). In: The Naturalist on the River Amazon. London: John Murray. [pp. xxxiv-xxxv]
Summary:

Bates' paper on Papilios; Darwinian philosophy, geographical distribution of species, rivers as limits to distribution, ARW's Zoological Society paper on distribution of monkey species in Brazil; isolation of species from geographical origins, geological evidence; hopes Bates will write on Cicindelidae; collecting in Sumatra; plans to return to England.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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