From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Skeffington Poole
Date:
13 Oct [1858]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Asks about Indian horses. Encloses questions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Asks about Indian horses. Encloses questions.
Regrets being absent when JH and sons called at [JG]'s home. Hopes to show JH some peculiar electrical phenomena that [JG] observed. Encloses two letters from [W. H.] Miller.
Is pleased to hear of his support for the Young Men's Association at Leeds. Is reading the new edition of JH's Outlines Astr.
Has just returned home and found the Photographic News and the queries regarding chemical experiments and photography. Gives details, but regrets he has not published much on it yet as he is still experimenting.
On the definition of an island, and an invitation to lecture about a comet.
Discusses the use in photography of a metallic substance named Junonium.
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