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From:
Henry Cole
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
10 December 1864
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 Dec [1864]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 256
Summary:
Has found incipient stages of adhesive discs in Hanburia tendrils.
Huxley was probably right to have challenged Sabine, but the poor old man is sick.
CD remembers the old Disraeli novel [Tancred (1847)] that sneers at transmutation.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
10 December 1864
Source of text:
MM/19/40, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[10 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.76
Summary:
Comments about translating Homer and about other translations appearing.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Thomas Walker
Date:
[10 December 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.16 (C: 24.77)
Summary:
Received Indian survey chart. JH's son John wrote of higher-order ellipsoidal triangles with sides based on geodesical triangles. JH objects that these violate principle of diagonal bracing. Proposes different triangles and names sites in India as apexes. Received G. B. Airy's paper on reduction.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project