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Herschel6263

From:
Redmond Barry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.24
Summary:

Sends him a vocabulary of Aboriginal dialects and University calendar. The response to his questionnaire has been very disappointing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6643

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[26 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.244
Summary:

Comments on observations of meteors, comets, and the transit of Mercury.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8359

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[13 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.160b
Summary:

JT's paper on polarization of sky light suggests that neutral points are functions of cloud density. This verifies JH's earlier explanation of blue sky color. Incomplete polarization. Cause of blue color in water. Corrects note on W. A. Miller's observations of rainbows.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8703

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Henry Taylor
Date:
[29 December 1868]
Source of text:
Bodleian Library, Oxford
Summary:

Has received HT's pamphlet on crime and its prevention and punishment. Praises it and questions some particulars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8969

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the R.A.S.
Date:
[22 December 1868]
Source of text:
R.A.S.M.N., 29 (1869), 84-5
Summary:

There having been reports of changes in the nebula around Eta Argus, JH sends the R.A.S. a letter from JH's son John [see JH's son's 1868-11-23] reporting his observations of that object. JH adds his comments.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

JHC1531

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
30 December 1868
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.8-9, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
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FVM-68-12-00a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70. f. 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-68-12-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
2 December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 355
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-68-12-05

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
5 December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 356-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-68-12-05a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
5 December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 358
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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FVM-68-12-18

From:
Joseph Hooker
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
18 December 1868
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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FVM-68-12-21

From:
George Bentham
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
21 December 1868
Source of text:
RB MSS M4, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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WCP1696

From:
Charles Lyell
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
21 December 1868
Source of text:
Edinburgh University Library: Gen113/Lyell1/3948-3976
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1759

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Griffith
Date:
11 December [1868]
Source of text:
Manchester Archives and Local Studies: George Griffiths Autograph Letters Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2214

From:
Henry Baker Tristram
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
22 December 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 91-92
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP2249

From:
August Friedrich Leopold Weismann
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
13 December 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 179-180
Summary:

Polymorphism in butterflies.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4664

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Francis Galton
Date:
15 December 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4868

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
5 December [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP4876

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Lyell
Date:
23 December 1868
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society: The Darwin-Lyell Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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