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DCP-LETT-6167

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Asa Gray
Date:
8 May [1868]
Source of text:
Gray Herbarium of Harvard University (94)
Summary:

AG’s review of Variation [Nation 6 (1868): 234–6] very good.

CD’s fondness for Pangenesis; although an "infant cherished by few", CD expects it to have a long life.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8426

From:
Hubert Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.308
Summary:

JH's approval encourages HA to publish account [of hemianopsia]. JH may keep HA's drawings. Notes on attack suffered by JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

SOMERVILLE551

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
8 May 1868
Source of text:
179, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel6640

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[8 May 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.216
Summary:

Comments on several aspects of poetry, including EC's; JH has been quite ill; talks about walking on water with a water velocipede.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP2999

From:
Cromwell Fleetwood Varley
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
8 May 1868
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46439 ff. 30-32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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WCP1487

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
8 May 1868
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/8/287
  • Wallace, A. R. (1905). In: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions. Vol. 2. London: Chapman & Hall. [pp. 291-293]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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