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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
24 Nov [1861]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 688
Summary:

Requests more precise details about Oxalis, to which GB referred in his remarks on Primula.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Nov. 24/61
Source of text:
MS JT/1/H/97, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
[24 November 1861]
Source of text:
RS:HS 23.350 (C: RI 515)
Summary:

Finds JT's work on thermotics 'highly interesting,' although criticizes measurements of 'tenuity' of vapor, and explanation of scattering of sunlight and formation of corona around moon during eclipse.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project