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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[1 April 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.107 (C: 24.255)
Summary:

Thanks for answers and for notice on Apteryx [Maerurus ?], which JH remembers watching Richard Owen inspect. Interested in W. B. Carpenter's and C. W. Thomson's ['Bathybius?]' as origin of chalk-flint. Discusses inorganic chemical allotropes. Organic allotropes may exist, serving as 'agents of vital action' and subject to a higher power.

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John Herschel Project

Herschel991

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
1869-4-27 or earlier
Source of text:
JHS 6.46
Summary:

Talks about problems of observing nebulae—one of which seems to have changed—and one of which is in the catalogue and does not seem to exist.

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John Herschel Project
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