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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[23 January 1882]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 285
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Has sent Kovalevsky his major paper on the moon’s motion, with references to others.
Encloses letter from R. S. Ball [missing], who has placed reliance on Samuel Haughton’s wild speculations.
Has heard that J. Challis’s health is worse.
Thanks EH for gift of 2d ed. of his book of travels [Seven years in South Africa (1881)]. Expresses admiration for EH’s courage and zeal for science.
Discusses present of microscope to Grant Allen.
Mentions sugar-cane paper [by Baron de Villa Franca].