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DCP-LETT-5008B

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:
16 Feb [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 96
Summary:

Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel4317

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
B. W. S. Vallack
Date:
[16 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.417b (C: RS:HS 24.141)
Summary:

Suggests weaknesses in BV's plans for a binocular telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6633

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[16 February 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.142
Summary:

Main object in translating Homer was to 'wipe off the stigma cast on English hexameters by such people as Tennyson.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-66-02-16

From:
the Verein für Erdkunde zu Dresden
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
16 February 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M105, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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