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From:
Carlo Matteucci
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
20 April 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, Leonard
Date:
[20 April 1864]
Source of text:
DAR 239.23: 2.2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
20 Apr 1864
Source of text:
DAR 101: 208–13
Summary:

Again refuses to help Scott as "unfitted" to make his way in the world. Scott is unwilling to take his part in the "struggle for life", unlike Tyndall, Faraday, Huxley, and Lindley, who established themselves. Scott’s work is not science, but "scientific horticulture".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
James Clerk Maxwell
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
1864 Ap 20
Source of text:
vol. 2, p. 226, The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
William Rutter Dawes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.116
Summary:

Is ready to hear that he is to have a visit from Willie Herschel. Regrets he cannot entertain friends as he used to. Has been laid up with ill-health. Would like information on how to prepare a chemical precipitate as that forming the sun's surface. Warren de La Rue has written to him.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project