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Herschel3558

From:
Henri de Senarmont
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.188
Summary:

Asks JH's help in efforts to publish a complete edition of writings of physicist Augustin Fresnel.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3457

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Brodie Innes
Date:
24 Feb [1862]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Has heard of mules of canary and other finches breeding occasionally, but it is rare, and there is hardly one authenticated case of two such mules breeding together.

Sixteen of the household at Down are sick with influenza.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8345

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Jacques Babinet
Date:
[24 February 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 19.148
Summary:

JB's solution to torsion thread arrangement is simpler and more ingenious than JH's. Enquires about details of gravimetric balance. Pendulum measurements. Density of continents. Clarification of JH's privileges as foreign associate of Institute. Death of J. B. Biot.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-5418F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 Feb [1862-9]
Source of text:
R. M. Smythe (dealer) (no date)
Summary:

Thanks for their kind feelings towards him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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