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From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Babbage
Date:
27 November 1848
Source of text:
BL add MS 37194, f.220
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Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Discusses establishment of the Museum of Economic Botany at Kew by William Jackson Hooker; asks about how to find a book of paper samples like one owned by Babbage for the Museum.
Encloses seeds gathered from Heracleum sphondylium. Brief discussion of William Jackson Hooker’s trip to the Alps region, including failed attempt to climb Mont Blanc.