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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Nov [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.140)
Summary:

Illnesses of Mrs Horner and Emma Darwin.

Death of Sarah Elizabeth Wedgwood.

Mentions work on his "Big Book" [Natural selection].

Remarks on J. A. H. de Bosquet’s discovery of a Chthamalus in the Chalk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hewett Cottrell Watson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Nov 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 296
Summary:

Greatly interested in CD’s experiments with seeds in salt water [see "Action of sea-water on seeds", Collected papers 1: 264–73]. Believes CD exaggerates the force of the objection, against migration, that seeds tend to sink.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Christian Friedrich Schoenbein
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 November 1856
Source of text:
UB MS NS 427
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
C. J. F. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 November 1856
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 49
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Samuel Hannaford
To:
Ronald Gunn
Date:
10 November 1856
Source of text:
A247, R. C. Gunn papers, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project