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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alexander Goodman More
Date:
[30 June 1860]
Source of text:
Royal Irish Academy (A. G. More papers RIA MS 4 B 46)
Summary:

Asks about removal of pollen-masses in bee orchid.

Will return home on 5th and go to Charles Langton’s on the 9th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[30 June 1860]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 4 (1860), 118
Summary:

[Writing under the pseudonym 'Redde Suum Cuique'], JH notes that a recently published process for recovering silver from old plate was in fact anticipated by James Keir in a 1790 R.S.P.T. paper. Attacks a recent misuse of the word 'actinometer.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
Friday
Source of text:
MS JT/1/T/1256; MS JT/1/TYP/6/2199, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Lyon Playfair
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Jun /60
Source of text:
MS JT/1/P/127; MS JT/1/TYP/3/994, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project