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Herschel2456

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
9 December [1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.310
Summary:

A metallic thermometer will be constructed at Kew Observatory to test JH's proposal. Experiments on Index of Friction of gases to be resumed at Kew.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3341

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Dec 1861]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 136, 129c
Summary:

Henri Lecoq’s miserable book on plant geography [Étude sur la géographie botanique de l’Europe (1854–8)].

H. W. Bates’s pleasure at meeting JDH.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel11277

From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 December 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.180
Summary:

Would like JH's approval to submit the enclosed certificate on behalf of JH's son. No. 29 of the Record of Recreative Science contains a good article on Light by E. J. Lowe, who mentions JH's name.

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John Herschel Project
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