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DCP-LETT-4409

From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 165: 142
Summary:

Is sending his monograph ["A revision and arrangement of the North American species of Astragalus and Oxytropis", Proc. Am. Acad. Arts & Sci. 6 (1863): 188–236].

Death of Francis Boott.

U. S. is now determined to do away with slavery.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-4408

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Feb 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 183–5
Summary:

CD’s climbing plant experiments make it impossible to deny nerve force in plants.

Has discussed Frankland’s new glacial theory with Lyell.

Bishop Colenso’s trial.

Possibility of Scott’s coming to Kew as a curator.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8393

From:
Richard Hodgson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 February 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.278
Summary:

Correction to R.A.S. report regarding eyepiece that RH invented for viewing sun, but which was attributed to JH by Charles Pritchard.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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