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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Date:
29 Oct [1845]
Source of text:
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (MfN/HBSB, N005 NL Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Nr. 43)
Summary:

Sends specimens. Asks for information about specimens from Rio Gallegos.

What does CGE mean by the term "Fluthgebiete"?

French translation gives impression that Ehrenberg attributes Pampas deposit to debacle.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Josiah Quincy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.297
Summary:

Sends new edition of James Grahame's History of the United States. Pleased to have been in correspondence with JH. Describes events at Harvard Observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Josiah Quincy
Date:
[29 October 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 22.252
Summary:

Received 50 copies of memoirs of James Grahame. Will delete one passage in the copies he will distribute. Congratulates JQ on his literary accomplishment.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.184
Summary:

Saw [Henry] Goulburn, who will ask Lord Aberdeen to notify foreign governments that the British government will continue the magnetic observatories. Hopes observatories will continue in those countries too.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 October 1845]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.160
Summary:

Mrs. Airy has given birth to a son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project