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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
4 Apr 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/63)
Summary:
Has received measurements of alluvial terraces at Crawford.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Has received measurements of alluvial terraces at Crawford.
No summary available.
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.
Needs clarification of the relationship between the sun's rotation and the nebular hypothesis. Do the planets between Mars and Jupiter create problems for the hypothesis?
Death of her brother-in-law. Riots in Germany. Thanks for the gift.