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DCP-LETT-6433

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct [1867]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 59
Summary:

Wants information on Fuegian harpoons. Must prepare second edition of Prehistoric times.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8954

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Photographic News
Date:
[27 October 1867]
Source of text:
Photographic News, 11 (Nov. 8, 1867), 541-2
Summary:

Maintains that JH did not invent the thaumsacope [thaumatrope], which some have ascribed to him. JH does note that he proposed moving pictures in an 1860 publication, five years before Alonzo G. Grant sought patent protection for this idea.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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