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From:
Robert Chambers
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/69a)
Summary:
A second attempt by RC to defend his conduct.
Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
Text Online
From:
Frederick Madan
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
6 October 1848
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/1/45
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
6 Oct [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 112a
Summary:
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Couch Adams
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 October 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.4
Summary:
Discusses U. J. J. Leverrier's paper on Neptune. Difference between distance of real and theoretical planets. News that JH is going to publish Outlines Astr. Hopes to see him at Cambridge on the day the Public Orator is being elected.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project