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From:
W. B. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 December 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 81
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
22 Dec 1858
Source of text:
DAR 100: 128–30
Summary:
Would appreciate loan of CD’s chapter on transmigration across tropics, which may help with the difficulties of Australian distribution.
Still regards plant types as older than animal types.
The Cape of Good Hope and Australian temperate floras cannot be connected by the highlands of Abyssinia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[22 December 1858]
Source of text:
RS MC.5.381
Summary:
Discusses proposal to establish magnetic and meteorological observatories at Peking, Newfoundland, Vancouver, and Falkland.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Richard Owen
Date:
[22 December 1858]
Source of text:
Dunedin Public Lib. (C: TxU:H/L-0290; Reel 1054 & RS Sa.668)
Summary:
Sends RO a note from G. B. Airy on the inadvisability of having a meteorological observatory in Peking. JH agrees with Airy. When William Whewell arrives for a visit, JH will seek his advice.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Miles Joseph Berkeley
Date:
22 December 1858
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.223, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Hooker Project