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DCP-LETT-7343

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 103: 60
Summary:

Bentham has translated Miquel’s Sumatran supplement to his Flora van Nederlandsch Indie. It should be published. What does CD think is best vehicle? Nature is wretched and too ephemeral. What about Popular Science Review?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel10521

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.398
Summary:

Has calculated the ecliptic of Thucydides. Comments on this and the reading given by E. W. Hartwig. Regarding the 7 eclipses of the sun during the past 30 years. G. Bishop's assistant (W. Plummer) is investigating the orbit of the great comet of 1861. Nautical Almanac for 1874 delayed due to extra work on the transit of Venus.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FL-1204

From:
Litchfield, H. E.
To:
Forster, L. M.
Date:
12 October [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 245: 417
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters

Herschel1092

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Georg Adolph Erman
Date:
[12 October 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.7.7
Summary:

Corrects a misunderstanding about the date to which magnetic observations are to be reduced.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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WCP5423

From:
Pieter Johannes Veth
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
12 October 1870
Source of text:
KITLV - Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies: KITLV H 636
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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