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DCP-LETT-7289

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Kippist; Linnean Society
Date:
28 July [1870]
Source of text:
Linnean Society of London
Summary:

Sends five papers from J. P. M. Weale for consideration by the Linnean Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8738

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Anthony Proctor
Date:
[28 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.323
Summary:

Approves RP's method of preparing isographic projection charts of the distribution of bright stars, noting that JH's gauges of the southern stars are incomplete.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-70-07-30b

From:
Edward Symonds
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
Director’s letterbooks, MVS 2/1 3, p. 385, Melbourne Museum
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-7291

From:
David Forbes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
DAR 164: 145
Summary:

Would much like CD to contribute a note for insertion after his paper on Aymara Indians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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JHC1373

From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.166-167, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project

DCP-LETT-7290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Philip Mansel Weale
Date:
30 July 1870
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.380)
Summary:

Has forwarded JPMW’s papers to the Linnean Society [four articles by J. P. M. Weale, J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 13 (1870–2): 42–58].

Comments on JPMW’s findings concerning flowers and their fertilisation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
David Forbes
Date:
31 July [1870]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.381)
Summary:

Thanks DF for proofs of his paper on Aymara Indians.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel277

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 July 1870]
Source of text:
RGO 6.6.109
Summary:

About a title change for the Astronomer Royal's chief assistant.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4934

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.323 (C: RGO 6.382.353)
Summary:

Regarding GA's proposed visit to Hawkhurst. Is losing the services of his first assistant. Book on magnetism almost printed. Is revising his article on sound. Is trying out a water telescope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6596

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Elizabeth Colling
Date:
[31 July 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.324
Summary:

Of talking fishes, a great meteor falling in Tripoli, and the 'madness of man' in the wake of the Franco-Prussian War.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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