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DCP-LETT-6489

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 161: 262
Summary:

Sends abstract of his views on change of climate and a copy of a paper.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-6489F

From:
James Croll
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[2 Dec 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 50: E3–8
Summary:

Glacial climates.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3183

From:
Edward Sullivan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
2 December [1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.249
Summary:

Thanks JH for sending plan for swinging cot to prevent seasickness [see ES's [1868]-11-28] and asks for more information.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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FVM-68-12-02

From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
2 December 1868
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 355
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project

DCP-LETT-6487

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
2 Dec 1868
Source of text:
DAR 94: 102–4
Summary:

Enthusiastic about JDH’s plan for a British Flora – "a grand idea to make a Flora a guide for knowledge already acquired & to be acquired". Gives examples of subjects.

No work exists on various biological points in plants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel3218

From:
James Sivewright
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.213
Summary:

Thanks JH for sending plan of swing to counteract seasickness. This will enable his long suffering friend Lady Sullivan to escape hay fever by going to sea but without thereby being beset by seasickness.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1454

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[2 December 1868]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library 7656/H720
Summary:

Further comments on solar light [see GS's 1868-12-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel3535

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[2 December 1868]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.405b (C: 24.242; C: RI 553-4)
Summary:

Thinks JT's work on polarization will lead to remarkable discovery. Discusses production of rainbow, parallels to Isaac Newton's explanation of black spot on a soap bubble, and problems in JT's undulatory theory explanation of reflection. In JT's experiments, what are nebulous particles produced by light in gas or vapor?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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