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DCP-LETT-6857F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Boyd Dawkins
Date:
14 July [1869]
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009)
Summary:

Knows Dawkins interested in cave animals; has just heard from a Lloyd of Rhaggatt that a fissure has opened full of bones and teeth. Will send some.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel13274

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[14 July 1869]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0531; Reel 1053
Summary:

Glad for Mary's recovery. Congratulations on John's promotion to captain. Suggests method to study solar prominences without spectroscope. [Letter continues 15 June:] Alexander Herschel reports that G. B. Airy tried this method unsuccessfully long ago, but JH is sure it will work.

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John Herschel Project
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