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Herschel11950

From:
Charles May
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 October 1833]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.312
Summary:

Hopes this letter will reach him before his departure for the Cape. Wishes someone in the proper climate would make a study of the best kind of Aloe for medicinal purposes. Encloses letter and plates on this subject and would be pleased if JH would show them to Thomas Maclear. Has not been able to obtain any further information from dichromic persons.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-223

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
25 Oct 1833
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 46c)
Summary:

Writes of his ride from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca and Buenos Aires, which he undertook in order to learn the geology of the land, so full of bones of large extinct quadrupeds.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8595

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Johann Franz Encke
Date:
[25 October 1833]
Source of text:
AdWDDR Encke 49
Summary:

Hopes JE will write to JH at Cape. Responds to JE's comments on JH's method of dealing with double stars. Thanks for generous comments on JH's Prelim. Discourse.

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John Herschel Project
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