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Herschel10714

From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 January 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.69
Summary:

Queries regarding JH's star lists. Sending magnetic information from A. T. Kupffer. Regarding the distribution of nebulae.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1294

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
19 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel5648

From:
William Radcliffe Birt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 January 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.138
Summary:

Regarding the luminous rings recently observed in the solar system.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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