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DCP-LETT-5432

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frederic William Farrar
Date:
5 Mar 1867
Source of text:
DAR 144: 41
Summary:

Much obliged for lecture [On some defects in public school education (1867)]. Would leave classics to those with zeal and taste for appreciation. Learned nothing at school except by reading and experimenting in chemistry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3386

From:
James Joseph Sylvester
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.164
Summary:

Sends JH proceedings of Mathematical Society of London and asks JH to join.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8356

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[5 March 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.158
Summary:

No mention of Emmanuel Liais's L'espace céleste in English journals. Contact London publishers to find translator for it. Alexander Herschel is now professor of natural philosophy at Andersonian Institution in Glasgow. Hopes JB's elegant method of measuring gravity by torsion will not die before being put into practice.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5431

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
5 Mar [1867]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether WBT can carry out poultry mating experiments for him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP6882

From:
Edward Burnett Tylor
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
5 March 1867
Source of text:
Bancroft Library, University of California: BANC MSS 92/515z
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1394

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
5 Mar [1867?]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/9/22)
Summary:

Wishes to know the correct name for the British Museum’s specimen of an Abyssinian wolf described by Wilhelm Rueppell, Neue Wirbelthiere zu der Fauna von Abyssinien [1835–40] .

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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