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From:
Algernon Percy (4th Duke of Northumberland)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 July 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/4.17; Reel 9
Summary:

Gratitude for receipt [of JH's Cape Results]. To assure delivery of copies to foreign sovereigns, JH must first write letter to minister of each legation asking for royal acceptance. Lists nine ambassadors with whom AP has already communicated.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Denny
Date:
21 July [1847]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 383
Summary:

Regrets not seeing HD at Oxford meeting [of BAAS].

He may keep duplicates of parasitic insects from CD’s collection. Lyell has collected Pediculi for HD from Negroes in North America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project