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DCP-LETT-192

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[c. 26 Oct –] 24 Nov [1832]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Henslow letters: 14 DAR/1/1/14)
Summary:

A French collector [Alcide d’Orbigny] has been at the Rio Negro and will probably have "taken the cream". CD’s luck with fossil bones, among them a large extinct armadillo-like animal. Describes some birds, toads, Crustacea, and other marine specimens. Nearly all plants flowering at Bahia Blanca were collected. Is sending two large casks of fossil bones by packet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11390

From:
John Gibson Lockhart
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.301
Summary:

Sending check in payment of JH's article on Celestial Mechanism in the Quarterly Review. Would be pleased if JH would now write an article on comets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9082

From:
William Whewell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 October 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0565
Summary:

Is sending JH some writings by Mr. (Mrs.?) Thomas Malthus on idiotic people and a book by WW [Astronomy and General Physics]. Mentions Richard Jones. Asks whether WW has seen 'the comet.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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