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Herschel7047

From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 June 1856]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.283
Summary:

Would he answer some of his queries when he has leisure? Queries on the law of beats for unison sounds. Met JH's daughter on Monday, who gave a fair account of JH and his recent work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1887

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 June [1856]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.130)
Summary:

Thanks WDF for specimen of Dorking cock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel470

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[4 June 1856]
Source of text:
RGO 6.216.117
Summary:

Some more information on the use of the actinometer [see JH's 1856-4-24 & GA's 1856-6-3]; some news of JH's wife, Margaret.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1888

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
4 June [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Reports safe arrival of rabbit sent by WBT.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1889

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
4 June 1856
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 303
Summary:

SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.

Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.

Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1807

From:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 403
Summary:

Note on cases of representative shells that are not clearly either varieties or species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1890

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[after 4 June 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 72: 59–61
Summary:

Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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