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DCP-LETT-4377

From:
Ernst Philipp August (Ernst) Haeckel
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 166: 36
Summary:

Returns letter mailed by mistake [see 4361].

Hopes CD will accept gift of his Radiolarien [Die Radiolarien, 2 vols. (1862)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7805

From:
James Thomas Walker
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 January 1864]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.13
Summary:

Received JH's two letters acknowledging receipt of 'Volume of Tables of Heights' of the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India. Hopes to visit JH and discuss phenomenon of terrestrial refraction. Received valuable assistance on tables from JH's son John.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Faraday4420

From:
John Gaspard Fanshawe
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
2 January 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/137
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Tyndall2061

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Annette Roche
Date:
2nd, January, 1864
Source of text:
MS JT/1/TYP/11/3852-3, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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Faraday4419

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Peter Henry Berthon
Date:
2 January 1864
Source of text:
LMA CLC/526/MS 30108/4/142
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-4378

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Jan 1864
Source of text:
DAR 106: B8–11
Summary:

Remarks on ARW’s review of Samuel Haughton’s paper on bees’ cells

and Origin.

Agassiz’s strength as geologist and weakness in natural history theory.

Work problems.

His butterfly collection.

Problems with book on Malay journey.

Recommends Herbert Spencer and his Social statics.

Spencer’s "masterly" nebular hypothesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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WCP1855

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 January 1864
Source of text:
  • Cambridge University Library: DAR 106: B8-11
  • British Library, The: BL Add. 46434 ff. 33-35
  • Wallace Family Collection (private collection)
  • Marchant, J. (Ed.). (1916). In: Alfred Russel Wallace; Letters and Reminiscences. Vol. 1. London & New York: Cassell & Co. [pp. 148-151]
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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