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DCP-LETT-6502

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 167: 23, 23a
Summary:

Hopes Miss [Sarah Elizabeth] Wedgwood will sell part of her land for a parsonage at Down. Recounts his futile efforts to obtain land in the past.

Encloses news item about the supposed hybrid [of cow and deer].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6503

From:
John Evans
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
14 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 163: 36
Summary:

Apologises; CD is correct: the object his foreman found is not organic.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3537

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[14 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.243 (C: RI 557-8)
Summary:

Thanks for paper verifying JH's prediction that explanation of blue sky color carries with it that of polarization of skylight. Involves ultimate link between chemical and analytical dynamics. Notes that 'neutral points' in sky polarization have yet to be explained; offers tentative explanation based on clues in JT's work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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