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From:
C[harles] De La Pryme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
19 August [1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.487
Summary:

Inviting JH to become a candidate at Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 August 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.232 (C: RGO 6.376.367)
Summary:

Relating his experiences on his recent tours abroad.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward William Vernon Harcourt
Date:
19 Aug [1856]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks to borrow C. L. Brehm’s book [Handbuch der Naturgeschichte aller Vögel Deutschlands (1831)]. Wants to see how far Brehm went in splitting species.

Took finches from Madeira to British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Text Online
From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
19 August 1856
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D31
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project