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WCP2259

From:
James Croll
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
28 September 1870
Source of text:
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 194-195
  • Ebay (auction)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

Herschel1468

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.78
Summary:

Comments on JH's concerns about actinometric measurements [see JH's 1870-9-20]; recommends the study of periodicity of waves on Atlantic Coast.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7329

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
28 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 378
Summary:

Various arrangements concerning the publication of Descent. "It will cause men to prick up [their] ears – & to elevate their eyebrows." JM thinks he will venture to print 2500 copies.

Suggests CD tone down as possibly indelicate a passage on proportion of advances made by the two sexes in animals.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10701

From:
Sir William Huggins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.61
Summary:

Has had a letter from Cleveland Abbe inquiring when JH's Catalogue of Double Stars can be expected. Howard and Thomas Grubb have just erected his telescope but the eye end is not finished. Instrument will be very 'handy.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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