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DCP-LETT-1971

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
9 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 180
Summary:

CD coming to London.

Read JDH’s review [Hooker’s Kew J. Bot. 8 (1856): 54–64 et seq.] of Alphonse de Candolle’s Géographie botanique raisonnée [1855] long ago.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1972

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
9 Oct [1856]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of Helix for experiment. Asks for assistance. Mentions failure of his own experiment involving Helix pomatia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11175

From:
Francis Charles Knowles
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 October 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.65
Summary:

Thinks it may be a good idea to utilize aluminium to coat the speculum of reflecting telescopes. Is shortly to take command of iron works and furnaces and hopes to carry out experiments to produce barytic glass.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1283

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1005, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1284

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Thomas Archer Hirst
Date:
9th Oct. 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/476, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Tyndall1285

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
9 Oct. 1856.
Source of text:
MS JT/3/897, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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