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Herschel6705

From:
Charles G. B. Daubeny
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.22
Summary:

Thanks for sending him a copy of his translation of the first book of the Iliad. Although his health is better he spent some time near Naples and saw the eruption of Vesuvius. Comments on volcanic activity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3574

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[29 May 1862]
Source of text:
DAR 101: 37
Summary:

Sends two flowers of Vanilla and two Melastomataceae.

Has worked on Cameroon list ["Mountain flowering plants and ferns of the Cameroons", in Burton, Abeokuta and the Cameroons Mountains (1863) 2: 270–7]

and Genera plantarum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel6670

From:
J[ames] M[osey] Cranswick
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.374
Summary:

Thanks for his long and valuable reply to his query. States how the query originated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4190

From:
Peter Henry Berthon
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
29 May 1862
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/126
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel7144

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Augustus De Morgan
Date:
[29 May 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.354 & 23.376
Summary:

Hopes AD will be successful in his projected paper on the infinity of magnitude. Does not recollect the paper by J. J. Sylvester. Has had a letter from Manchester on his own theory of eternal existence.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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