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WCP2270

From:
Peter Martin Duncan
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
27 February 1871
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 214-215
Summary:

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Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-7519

From:
John Murray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Feb [1871]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 390
Summary:

First edition [issue] of Descent is exhausted. Asks CD to send corrections at once for a new printing of at least 1000 copies.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8745

From:
Richard Anthony Proctor
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 February 1871]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.132
Summary:

Reports on recent solar eclipse photographs of the solar corona which jeopardize JH's meteoric theory of the corona's origin. Concludes the corona must be 'after all a phenomenon of eruption!!'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-7518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[27 Feb 1871]
Source of text:
DAR 261.8: 7 (EH 88205945)
Summary:

Thinks JT’s discovery of a glycerine respirator is an interesting practical discovery. CD has been wondering about the hairs in our nostrils, but doubts that JT has explained their function, since there are hardly enough.

Will ask W. Ogle to observe hairs in nostrils of different races.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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