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From:
George Bellas Greenough
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 May 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.125
Summary:

The metrical system is decaying. Does not see any future for the standard yard. A universal language is a necessity.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
4 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project