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DCP-LETT-6736A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Spiridion Brusina
Date:
8 May [1869]
Source of text:
Archives of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (XV-48/AI 340)
Summary:

Sends photograph of Sir C. Lyell and Professor Owen, generally considered our most distinguished [British] naturalists. Includes the requested photograph of himself [see 6720].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6736F

From:
David Taylor Fish
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
8 May 1869
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette (1869): 501
Summary:

Discusses CD’s paper ‘Formation of mould’ and CD’s views on earthworms.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6736

From:
Asa Gray; Jane Loring Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 and 9 May 1869
Source of text:
DAR 165: 167—8
Summary:

Sorry to hear of CD’s accident.

Recounts his travels.

Jane Gray writes a description of the Arabs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-6735

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
8 May [1869]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 268)
Summary:

Thanks for [D. D. Cunningham’s] letter. Had hoped for a better haul but delighted to hear of the curious fossil.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[8 May 1869]
Source of text:
RGO 6.695.494 (drafts RS:HS 1.314 & 24.256)
Summary:

Has read the syllabus of GA's lectures on magnetism; it reminds JH of his attempt to solve the problem of 'Mahomet's coffin', which JH still believes would work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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