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DCP-LETT-5026

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johann Xaver Robert (Robert) Caspary
Date:
4 Mar 1866
Source of text:
DAR 92: A38–9
Summary:

Thanks RC for photograph and for papers, which are of highest interest to CD. He is not fully convinced about the rose by RC’s graft-hybrid paper [Bull. Congr. Int. Bot. & Hortic. Amsterdam (1865): 65–80]. Still retains faith in his own view that no plant is perpetually self-fertilised.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel1437

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[4 March 1866]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H711 (draft RS:HS 17.64 & C: RS:HS 24.145)
Summary:

Comments further on Ernst Klinkerfüss's work [see JH's 1866-2-28]; on the behavior of light emitted by an electric spark.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2574

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 March 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.480
Summary:

William Whewell's nieces have little hope for his recovery. Whewell is anxious about his article on Grote's Plato for MacMillan's Magazine.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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