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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
3 March 1862
Source of text:
MS papers 37, no. 522, folder 204, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
George Edwin Harris
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 166.1: 107
Summary:

GEH, a tailor, wishes to trade some work for a presentation copy of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Mar 1862
Source of text:
DAR 101: 17–19
Summary:

Had it not been for CD, JDH would never have written such papers as his one on Arctic flora. The "evulgation" of CD’s views is the purest pleasure he derives from them.

He too is staggered that Greenland ought to have been depopulated during the glacial period. Absence of Caltha is fatal to its re-population by chance migration.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Lambert-Adolphe-Jacques Quetelet
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
3 March 1862
Source of text:
Pelseneer (1936), 452
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[3 March 1862]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0371; Reel 1054
Summary:

Asks help of R.S.L. in reducing all observations to 1870 in JH's catalog of nebulae. Estimates cost at £10.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[3 March 1862]
Source of text:
RS MC.6.210
Summary:

Has completed catalogue of nebulae and star clusters observed by Charles-Joseph Messier, JH's father, and JH. Requests R.S.L.'s help in 'reducing [them] to an epoch.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project