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Faraday3701

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 December 1859
Source of text:
RI MS JT TS Volume 12, pp.4100-3
Summary:

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Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall1673

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
27 Dec 1859
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/12/4100; 4:3701, RI; Faraday Correspondence
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-2608

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
27 [Dec 1859]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.187)
Summary:

Mentions William Clift ["Report in regard to the fossil bones found in New Holland", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 10 (1830–1): 394–6].

Discusses relations between fossil and living types.

Discusses Hooker’s introductory essay [in Flora Tasmaniae]. Criticises Hooker’s views on flora of rising and sinking islands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10144

From:
Thomas Greenwood
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 December 1859]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.31
Summary:

Sending the prospectus for the third volume of his Cathedra Petri. Would like his friends to talk about it, and a competent person to review it. Has just had a friendly letter from William Whewell, the only one of his friends now resident at College.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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