From:
Leonard Horner
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Apr [1838]
Source of text:
DAR 210.8: 1
Summary:
Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Postpones meeting with CD because he must attend House of Commons for Factory Amendment Act.
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When on board the Excellent at Portsmouth he was deafened by the firing of a gun and has since suffered from 'singing' in his ear. Can JH recommend a relief? His daughter would like an engraving of JH.
Queries regarding the statement by William Herschel on the time taken for the light from the stars to reach the earth. Have there been any new developments in this theory?
Has had a volume of essays of JH's and wonders if the first one [address to the subscribers of Windsor Public Library] has been published separately; if not, he would like to issue it in a cheap form.