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FVM-59-01-10

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
John O'Shanassy
Date:
10 January 1859
Source of text:
K59/185, unit 747, VPRS 1189 inward registered correspondence, VA 475 Chief Secretary's Department, Public Record Office, Victoria
Summary:

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Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-2648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
10 Jan [1859]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A120–A121
Summary:

Thanks JSH for specimens. Comments on the structure of a hornet comb and asks JSH to obtain some fresh combs for him and to make observations for him. He is greatly interested in "these wondrous architectural instincts".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel8503

From:
Herbert Spencer
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.483
Summary:

Sending JH his Essays [Essays: Scientific, Political, and Speculative, 1857] and HS's 'Recent Astronomy and the Nebular Hypothesis,' the latter just published in the Westminster Review. Requests JH's comments on the latter publication.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-2399

From:
Richard Hill
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
10 Jan 1859
Source of text:
DAR 166: 218
Summary:

Will secure information on indigenous and naturalised bees as CD requests.

Believes Mexican and Jamaican Melipona are different.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7282

From:
Langham Dale
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 January 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.462
Summary:

Has been employed in London studying the way in which Government aid is granted to further popular education. Will be moving on to Glasgow soon to do similar work. Has been offered an L.L.D. if he can obtain a recommendation from someone in this country.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday3547

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Enfield Roscoe
Date:
10 January 1859
Source of text:
RSC MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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