From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[9 September 1867]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.398
Summary:
Further points on the Michel Chasles forgeries.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Further points on the Michel Chasles forgeries.
Suggests investments for CD;
discusses the opening of the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury;
mentions Edward Lumb of Buenos Aires, with whom CD stayed in Argentina.
Wants to send JH and [John] Stewart memoirs of her father, [Josiah] Quincy. Praises JH's Iliad translation) and his Cape Results. Introduces her nephew, General [?] Quincy.
Reports on a curious cross in peach varieties, in which the male made a firm large peach into a fruit more almond-like than itself.
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