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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[December 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 63
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Darwin Family Letters
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Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.
Organizational matters regarding paper reports; comments on light from sun's corona [see JH's 1868-11-8].
Continues experiments with carbonic acid and electric light [see JT's 1868-11-30], hoping to 'explode' idea that atmosphere's polarization is due to reflection by air particles.
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