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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 57
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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No summary available.
Sends a cutting from the Stroud Journal concerning JH's father, which may interest JH.
Seeks clarification of the position of one of the listed nebulae [see JH's 1862-4-30].
[Jean] Chacornac found nebula in Coma Berenices that JH thought had disappeared. It is highly variable. Notes on nebulae of variable magnitude.
[Responding to JC's 1862-5-26], discusses JH's argument against the eternal self existence of matter. Gives reference to where argument appears in JH's Prelim. Discourse.