From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
21 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (65)
Summary:
Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Is sending first half of orchid book.
Feels he is wrong about Melastoma.
Sends sketch of reflecting camera and describes its composition. Can now make reflectors under 7 inches very inexpensively.
Would like to include JH's name among those proposed for honorary degrees at Cambridge when he becomes Chancellor of the University.
JH's reply to WC's 1862-4-21.
Regarding water in the atmosphere. Effect of the moon on clouds. Some of the curiosities seen by his son while at the Embassy in Japan, including a device for giving warnings of earthquakes. Intends to show combinations of wind currents.
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