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Herschel10505

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.382
Summary:

Returns N. R. Pogson's tables. Has received a communication from [W.?] Lummis concerning a dark spot on the sun's disc. Has been unable to make any calculations yet.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3503

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Dickson (Andrew) Murray
Date:
10 Apr [1862]
Source of text:
R. D. Pyrah (private collection)
Summary:

Did CD lend AM a pamphlet on cave insects by S. Scudder ["On the genus Raphidophora", Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 8 (1861–2): 6–14]? CD much wants it and remembers lending it to someone.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3502

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Apr 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.1: 13
Summary:

Now believes flowers of Fumariaceae must be self-fertilised.

Planning a piece on dimorphism in the Natural History Review ["On the two forms, or dimorphic condition, in the species of Primula … by Charles Darwin", n.s. 2 (1862): 235–43].

Observations on Campanula dimorphism.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9212

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[10 April 1862]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207103 (C: RS:HS 23.366)
Summary:

Responds to WW's comments on JH's Iliad translation. Is preparing a 'General Index Catalogue of Nebulae,' with help from computists supplied by G. B. Airy. Asks WW to recommend JH's son Alexander for a professorship at the Andersonian University of Glasgow.

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John Herschel Project
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