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DCP-LETT-647

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
4 Oct 1842
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/COM/P/4/2/130)
Summary:

Papers by T. J. Newbold [Proc. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1842): 702–5], T. C. Hunt [3 (1842): 565–6] and J. Phillips [3 (1842): 705–6] need not be printed in Transactions of the Geological Society.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anne Susanna Lloyd; Anne Susanna Horner
Date:
[4 Oct 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 261.11: 1 (EH 88206053)
Summary:

Emma recovering well from birth of third child, Mary Eleanor.

Sorry to hear Leonard Horner has been ill.

Has received high praise of Coral reefs from Lyell.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10421

From:
Thomas Henderson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 October 1842]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.302
Summary:

Has had a reply from Thomas Maclear stating that all work has ceased at the Cape Observatory until the work on calculating the Arc of the Meridian has finished. F. W. Bessel has expressed a wish that Centaure should be observed with a heliometer. Wishes a good heliometer could be sent to the Cape.

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John Herschel Project
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