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DCP-LETT-13804

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
12 [May 1861 - Apr 1863]
Source of text:
Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections, University of Birmingham (EYT/1/45)
Summary:

Thanks TCE for telling him of his crossed pigs. When they are grown, he would like to know whether they resemble each other.

Doubts the half-bred Gallus sonnerati will be productive, though he was assured many years ago that such a fertile half-breed once occurred.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FVM-61-05-12a

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
12 May 1861
Source of text:
MS papers 37, folder 203, no. 518, Haast family papers, Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-3146

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Luke Hindmarsh
Date:
12 May [1861]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 128
Summary:

Thanks for information about natural increase of Chillingham cattle. Compares with case in Paraguay.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9518

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Robert FitzRoy
Date:
[12 May 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.254 & 23.331
Summary:

Comments on whether a rainbow could be reflected to the eye from water. Comets approach quite near to the earth on many occasions. Regarding the development of South America.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8932

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
The London Review
Date:
[12 May 1861]
Source of text:
London Review, 2 (May 18, 1861), 568-9
Summary:

Discusses the theory of rainbow formation, especially for rainbows seen as reflections from bodies of water.

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John Herschel Project
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