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Herschel7143

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.353
Summary:

Is meditating on a paper on the infinity of magnitude. Does he recollect a paper by J. J. Sylvester on the passage of a bullet in a gun barrel?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6669

From:
J[ames] M[osey] Cranswick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.372
Summary:

Would be glad to know in which work he argued against the eternal existence of matter.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3572

From:
George Chichester Oxenden
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 May 1862
Source of text:
DAR 173.2: 49
Summary:

Reminisces about Andrew Knight, whom he knew as a young man.

Praises Orchids for its "analogies of Creation".

Will send lizard orchid.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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