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DCP-LETT-4927

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 45
Summary:

CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel178

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[30 October 1865]
Source of text:
RGO 6.256.299
Summary:

Passes along a report that someone took a 4-foot telescope to the top of Snowdon [mountain], from where he could see the eight satellites of Saturn and the rings of Neptune.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4900

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 October 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.288 (C: RGO 6.478.491)
Summary:

Further regarding polarized light and its interferences.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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