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DCP-LETT-5247

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 102: 108–9
Summary:

Lyell has sent chapters [of 10th ed. of Principles] to JDH, who objects to CL’s ignoring the part vapour plays in affecting temperature of the globe.

Parliament will be asked to buy W. J. Hooker’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5248

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Oct 1866
Source of text:
DAR 166: 43
Summary:

Will visit CD on Sunday, 21 October.

Will spend winter in research on Madeira and Tenerife.

CD will soon receive copy of Generelle Morphologie.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5249

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell
Date:
[19? Oct 1866]
Source of text:
Bodleian Libraries, Oxford (Dep. c. 370, folder MSD-1: on loan from Somerville College, Oxford)
Summary:

Mary Somerville may use diagrams from Orchids [in her Molecular and microscopic science (1869)], but permission should be obtained from John Murray.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5250

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
19 Oct [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 96: 21–4
Summary:

Lists some alterations which must be made to the drawings [for Variation].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11528

From:
Sir Charles Lyell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.443
Summary:

Did not intend to trouble him with his proofs, but as he has cited JH in the chapter dealing with the astronomical effect on climate he sends proofs for this chapter. Would like to quote JH's two letters on the subject. The whole book is set up and hopes to send the volume in November.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2227

From:
John Rate
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 October 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.471
Summary:

Trying to ascertain the time for the eclipse of Jupiter's satellites. Wants to know the proper correction for his own telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1148

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
19 October 1866
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.93, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-66-10-19

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
19 October 1866
Source of text:
RB MSS M3, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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