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DCP-LETT-5102

From:
Thomas Rivers
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 May 1866
Source of text:
DAR 176: 166; 176: 188.1
Summary:

Sends a sketch of the haricot climbing the shoot of the plum-tree [see 4866].

Hopes to see CD at the [Horticultural] Congress on Wednesday [30 May].

Sends data on movement direction of Wisteria shoots.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1269

From:
John F. South
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 May 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.38
Summary:

Tells JH that JS's brother, James, is very ill and infirm, almost blind and with his memory failing, but wishing to be reconciled to those with whom he was in conflict in earlier times. Charles Babbage has visited. Would JH come or write?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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