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DCP-LETT-1366A

From:
Ray Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–6 Nov 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:

In response to CD’s letter [see 1364] the Secretary is instructed to request that he send a specimen plate to James de Carle Sowerby for estimate of cost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12536

From:
Henry Piddington
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 November 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.406
Summary:

Sends JH some publications, including one that tends to show that cyclones are electrical phenomena.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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HENSLOW-251

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
J. H. Balfour
Date:
4 November 1850
Source of text:
Library, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 101
Summary:

JSH discusses election of a new Curator for Cambridge University Botanic Garden and encloses report to the Vice Chancellor to be passed on to James Stratton as testimonial.

Thanks Balfour for inclusion of some of his tables in the Manual of Botany and points out errors of genera and species in the tables based on Lindley and Bentham.

Asks for a sample of ‘woody fibre’ used in India for his museum.

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Henslow Correspondence Project
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