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DCP-LETT-1553

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.108)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s plan to visit Tenerife.

Discusses inclination of strata on islands and around mountains.

Personal affairs of several scientists.

Visit by Henslow.

Notes publication by Hooker [Himalayan journals (1854)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1146

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Ross
Date:
16 March 1854
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1147

From:
John Gould
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 June 1854
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1243

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
4 September 1854
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Misc. MS. Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1602

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:

Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.

Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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