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Herschel3440

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.408 (C: RI 569)
Summary:

Is delighted with JH's exposition of colors of thin plates and of measurements of a wave of light in Familiar Lectures. Asks permission to quote from it.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-6990

From:
Adolf Bernhard Meyer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
16 Nov 1869
Source of text:
DAR 171: 166
Summary:

Sends his translation of Wallace’s Malay Archipelago.

Wishes to translate 1858 essays by CD and Wallace from Linnean Society Proceedings [Collected papers 2: 3–19].

Plans journey to tropics.

Hopes to meet CD.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9586

From:
Peter le Neve Foster
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1869]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.327
Summary:

Council of the Society of Arts has offered prizes. Would be pleased if JH would serve on the Committee to decide the prizewinners.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel992

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
186[9]-11-16
Source of text:
JHS 6.55
Summary:

Asks son John to stop at the British Museum and get the completion of a quotation JH needs; also asks John to pick up JH's R.S.P.T. copies not picked up recently.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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