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Herschel7898

From:
George Robert Waterhouse
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[30 November 1858]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.102
Summary:

Responds to JH's questions about discovery sites of extinct species of saurians, mammoths, snakes, giant sloths, etc.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall1574

From:
John Douglas Cook
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS JT/1/C/47; MS JT/1/TYP/1/226, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP370

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Charles Silk
Date:
30 November 1858
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/45
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/60
Summary:

ARW's love of solitude; suggests Silk reads his article [with Darwin about natural selection] in August Linnean Society Proceedings; proud of complimentary remarks by Lyell and Hooker therein; dislike of politics; interest in ethnology; asks about books read; has read Tristram Shandy and novels by Dumas; marriage; sending an article on "smoke" for The Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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