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Herschel7601

From:
Count Revel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.118; Reel 9
Summary:

In response to JH's letter to the late Count [Polton?], Revel will forward two copies of JH's Cape Results to Turin for distribution to academic institutions.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel7527

From:
John Bullar
To:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.44; Reel 9
Summary:

Thanks MH for fulfilling promise. Hails JH's [Cape Results] as grand testimony to God's infinite power.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1113

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mary Anne Theresa Whitby
Date:
2 Sept [1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.61)
Summary:

Questions Mrs W on difference in flight capacity of male and female silkworm moths and asks her for results of experiments he suggested she do with silkworms to determine hereditariness of dark "eyebrows". [See Variation 1: 302.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel7585

From:
William Parsons (Lord Rosse)
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.102; Reel 9
Summary:

Will call for JH's [Cape Results] when in London. One of WP's assistants reported ring around Neptune last winter, but WP is skeptical. Instruments idle for nine months. WP too busy with [Irish famine] relief. Wrote to T. R. Robinson to find competent assistant.

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John Herschel Project
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