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DCP-LETT-2115F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
unknown
Date:
July 1857
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 23
Summary:

Memorandum about £250 investment in Patent Siliceous Stone Company, owned by David Thomas Ansted and Frederick Ransome.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-2116

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 July [1857]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 198
Summary:

George Henslow’s curtness to JDH: "an attack of religion".

Embryonic leaves. Adaptive functions and taxonomic significance of cotyledons.

Asa Gray. Separation of sexes in U. S. trees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall1409

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Juliet Pollock
Date:
Wednesday morning
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/6/1905, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday3310

From:
Julius Plücker
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 July 1857
Source of text:
IET MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel1988

From:
Sir William Pole
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1857-7
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.21
Summary:

Explains why his paper on color vision took the artist, dyer, etc., point of view rather than that of scientific chromatology. Willing to investigate a more scientific approach and asks permission for another visit.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-13889F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after June 1857]
Source of text:
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:

Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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