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Herschel14196

From:
George Peacock
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[8 May 1855]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0422; Reel 1087
Summary:

Told John Romilly that JH cannot attend meeting to review amendments to Cambridge [University] bill. Large protest meeting by university residents yesterday. Believes Lord Chancellor [R. M. Rolfe] will abandon bill. GP's view of how amended bill should distribute authority at university.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 May [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.113)
Summary:

Mentions his paper ["Transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. Discusses ice-borne rock. Reference to unpublished paper on icebergs [?"Power of icebergs to make grooves", Collected papers 1: 252–5]. Remarks on scoring by icebergs. Comments on judgment of theories by Geological Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP781

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 May 1855
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, London: NHM Catkey-418279
Summary:

Thanks for Waterhouse's report on ARW's Singapore Curculionidae - ARW's collecting activities and plans of a visit to Celebes and his quest for the Orang-utan, etc.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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