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DCP-LETT-5295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Dec [1866]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 307
Summary:

Is sending some plants and seeds to JDH.

Thanks Mrs Hooker for telling him of a life of his grandfather [Erasmus Darwin] of which he had not heard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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SOMERVILLE538

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
5 Dec 1866
Source of text:
156, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel3473

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
[5 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS Sa.675 (C RS:HS 15.283 & RS:HS 24.179)
Summary:

Maintains that a first class refractor is not needed at Masouri in India [see ES's 1866-9-4]. No special characteristics there justify the great expense of such a project.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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