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DCP-LETT-4975

From:
Edward Blyth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 [Dec] 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 207
Summary:

Gives CD reference to case of the saiga, an antelope, fearless of man.

Reports observations by New Zealander who has seen heaps of pebbles presumably voided by Dinornis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5303

From:
Mary Everest Boole
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 160: 249
Summary:

Asks whether CD believes natural selection obviates man’s ability to be guided by spiritual motives. Is anxious that his theory be compatible with her faith.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-5304

From:
Eleanor Johnson; Eleanor Corbet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1866
Source of text:
DAR 161: 225
Summary:

Mr Corbet too ill to write. Thanks for CD’s letter [see 5290].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel11896

From:
John F. McLennan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.258
Summary:

Sends the last sheet of the Memoir that will be necessary for JH to see. Sheets on the measuring bars are held in abeyance.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11430

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Edward Joseph Lowe
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.341
Summary:

Did not mean to say that meteors describe an exact circle round the sun. Comments on the phenomena of meteors.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel2588

From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 December 1866]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.488
Summary:

Thanks JH for his sympathy regarding WS's fall. Describes the meteors he saw from his window on December 4.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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