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Herschel10541

From:
George C. Hodgkinson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.418
Summary:

Is grateful for JH's reply. Gives reasons why he was looking for smaller and more portable instruments to take with him to the Alps.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Tyndall2140

From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
17th Sep. 1864.
Source of text:
HS 394a; MS JT/1/TYP/2/528, RS; RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel3565

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.394a (C: RI 528)
Summary:

Regrets 'stupidity' of Italian post office, which lost note sent to JH suggesting reprinting of passage from Treatise Astr. of 1833 on operations of sun in second edition of JT's book. Also wants to publish JT's 'extremely philosophical views' on muscle contraction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hermann Adolph Christian August (Hermann) Kindt
Date:
17 Sept 1864
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (11 and 12 June 2002); Manchester Libraries, Information and Archives (Autograph Letters: Harland Collection, vol. 1, p. 67, GB127.MS f 091 H15)
Summary:

Sends his thanks for a kind letter; he has copied out the last sentence of the Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4615F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
17 Sept [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 119
Summary:

Glad that Oliver is to review John Scott’s paper in the Natural History Review (Scott 1864a). Apologises that his enclosed references (now missing) are so paltry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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