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From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 May 1855]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.291
Summary:

Regarding the non-arrival of his star catalogues. Thinks that four volumes will finish the observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 May [1855]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 91)
Summary:

Asks WDF to induce schoolboys to collect eggs of lizards and snakes for him. He will see whether they float and stay alive on sea-water.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project