From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
4 Dec 1863
Source of text:
Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138)
Summary:
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
No summary available.
Unpublished Harvard list contains nine nebulae published in [G. F. J. A.] Auwers's catalogue of novae, because those were first discovered at Harvard. Thanks JH for pointing out two others already published, which GB will exclude from list. Admits possibility of 'illusions' in some. Asks JH to compare results in C. F. Gauss's article on achromatic object glass. Sent copy of T. H. Safford's article on companion of Sirius.
Comments on some communications with G. B. Airy, Astronomer Royal; complains he has received no formal acknowledgement of large number of manuscripts deposited with R.S.L.
Regarding the spots on the sun known as James Nasmyth's 'Willow leaves.'