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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller,1858-70. f. 23
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Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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Organizational matters regarding paper reports; comments on light from sun's corona [see JH's 1868-11-8].
Problems with Mr Robinson, who has suddenly departed for Ireland for a month. The parish urgently needs some respectable man to hold the living permanently.
Continues experiments with carbonic acid and electric light [see JT's 1868-11-30], hoping to 'explode' idea that atmosphere's polarization is due to reflection by air particles.