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DCP-LETT-3874A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Anderson
Date:
23 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Autographia (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Has heard from Asa Gray [see 3850] that JA is bringing live plants over for CD. Gives address for forwarding box to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-62-12-23

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
William Hooker
Date:
23 December 1862
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Directors' letters, vol. LXXV, Australian and Pacific letters 1859-65, letter no. 159
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

Herschel1303

From:
G[oodwin] Kilburne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.87c
Summary:

Informs JH of a meeting of the finance committee of the Hawkhurst Volunteers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1409

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.48
Summary:

Comments on matters relating to the provision of a reflecting telescope to Melbourne University [see JH's 1862-12-10].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6470

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.238
Summary:

Has read JH's brochure with pleasure. Regarding the alleged obstruseness of some of his own mathematical theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4279

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Buchanan
Date:
23 December 1862
Source of text:
RI MS F1 N/1/38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday4278

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
23 December 1862
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers, 1863 (216) LXIII, p.5-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-3874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
23 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987)
Summary:

CD is collecting [for Variation] all accounts of what some call "sports" and what he calls "bud-variations". He asks whether very slight variations in fruit appear suddenly by buds, or whether only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4227

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.320
Summary:

Directs JH to inquire regarding a pension for John Russell. Note C. P. Smyth's use of Outlines Astr. Mentions Isaac Fletcher as a promising amateur astronomer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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