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DCP-LETT-3362

From:
Andrew Smith
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov? 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 177: 184
Summary:

AS has been seriously ill with rheumatic fever.

Is studying the natives of South Africa to see whether he can trace any connection between them and the populations of North Africa.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10190

From:
Johannes von Gumpach
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.77
Summary:

Comments on JH's objections. Hopes to print some of the correspondence in his forthcoming book.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel10559

From:
Henry Holland
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1 November [1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.436
Summary:

Will send copy of second edition of HH's Essays on Scientific...Subjects (1862). Received letter from HH's friend and former patient Louis Napoleon, who will send copy of Napoleon's book on Gallic campaigns of Caesar.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7697

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 November 1862]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 12/1.7.10; Reel 10
Summary:

Best candidate for WL's assistant seems to be [Albert] Marth of Durham. Describes new planetary nebula.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8935

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
the Athenaeum
Date:
[1 November] 1862
Source of text:
Athenaeum, #1881 (Nov. 14, 1863), 652 inc
Summary:

Calls attention to a report of a lake in Central America that 'gives rise to two rivers.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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