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From:
John Lindley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
27 March 1834
Source of text:
British Library 37951c: 34-35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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From:
Nathaniel Wallich
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 March 1834
Source of text:
MU MS 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[28 Mar] 1834
Source of text:
DAR 204: 126
Summary:

A letter full of news of Cambridge and friends: the BAAS meeting at Cambridge; charges of corruption in the University; the Cambridge petition on behalf of Dissenters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[28 March 1834]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0579.2; Reel 1058
Summary:

Reviews his voyage to Africa in case CH did not receive JH's 1834-1-21 letter. Repairing the house that they bought outside of Cape Town, called 'Feldhausen' by the Dutch and 'The Grove' by the English; they are staying at another home close by. Happy that Table Mountain near the house shelters Feldhausen from southeast gales.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Lumb
Date:
30 Mar 1834
Source of text:
Profiles in History (dealers) (2006)
Summary:

CD asks the time of shipment and vessel in which the [Megatherium] bones were conveyed.

Patagonia swarms with guanaco, but few other creatures.

Hopes to be able to draw up a tolerable sketch of the geology of the east side of S. America.

Saw Jemmy Button, who is married and will stay in Tierra del Fuego. Mentions Falkland uprising.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project