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Herschel14050

From:
Charles Sterry
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1868]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0272; Reel 1087
Summary:

Death of William H. Barton.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6332F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Jacques Moulinié
Date:
29 Aug [1868]
Source of text:
Bibliothèque de Genève (Ms. fr. 1557, ff. 213–14)
Summary:

Hopes JJM can visit tomorrow and stay the night.

Would like to ask Carl Vogt if he is still in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel10208

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Rider Garrett
Date:
[29 August 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.94 & 24.225
Summary:

Has received her version of the first canto of Dante's Inferno. Did she know it has already been done in an almost perfect way by Mr. Ford, prebend of Exeter? Comments on various points of her translation.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6332A

From:
Benjamin Dann Walsh
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Aug 1868
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology: Charles Valentine Riley papers, Scrapbook no. 9, p. 61); DAR 47: 180; DAR 193: 54; Field Museum (pasted into C. V. Riley’s personal copy of his own 1st Annual Report of the Missouri State Entomologist)
Summary:

On the delay in receiving CD’s new book [Variation] and his delight in a borrowed copy.

Encloses a Prospectus on his new periodical "American Entomologist" devoted to economic entomology.

Comments on the talents of his young partner, C. V. Riley.

Requests photographs for Riley of CD and Westwood.

Dr J. L. Le Conte has not yet received the request that he furnish CD with information about the stridulatory organs of Coleoptera.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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