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DCP-LETT-966

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[11–15 Apr 1846]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 205
Summary:

Hugh Falconer gives no specific objections to Forbes’s views.

Botanical contrast between Cape of Good Hope and the rest of Africa is as strong as that between Australia and India.

Wishes CD would leave off snuff.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel3704

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Sheepshanks
Date:
[11 April 1846]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.47 (C: RS:HS 25.9.22)
Summary:

Does not possess enough knowledge of F. W. Bessel's writing to compose more than a brief obituary on him. Would like RS to help [A. B.] Orlebar of the Bombay Observatory by providing a corresponding observation of the occultation of alpha Virginis on 19 January.

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John Herschel Project
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