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Herschel13754

From:
John Theophilus Boileau
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1840]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0108; Reel 1087
Summary:

Loading scientific instruments aboard ship [Anshimy?] tomorrow prevents JB from visiting JH before departure. Missed annual R.A.S. meeting. Book of 'Observations' is nearly finished. Told [J. C.] Melvill that instruments in India were not adequate for observations of astronomical refractions.

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John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-557

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
24 [Feb 1840]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0025/1/5/11)
Summary:

Asks RO whether he has any MS [of Fossil Mammalia, no. 4] ready and to see that the plates are finished.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-556

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William C. Redfield
Date:
24 Feb [1840]
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Letters to William C. Redfield vol. 2 Scientific 1831-41 (z117 00151 2) pp. 335–8)
Summary:

Much interested in WCR’s paper on "Whirlwinds excited by fire" [Am. J. Sci. 36 (1839): 50–9; Edinburgh New Philos. J. 27 (1839): 369–79].

Sends a summary account of circular clouds and waterspouts formed during volcanic eruption in the Azores [S. Tillard, "Eruption of a volcano in sea off St Michael", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. (1812): 152–8].

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