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DCP-LETT-3874A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Anderson
Date:
23 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Autographia (dealers) (no date)
Summary:

Has heard from Asa Gray [see 3850] that JA is bringing live plants over for CD. Gives address for forwarding box to Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel1303

From:
G[oodwin] Kilburne
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS B27.87c
Summary:

Informs JH of a meeting of the finance committee of the Hawkhurst Volunteers.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel1409

From:
George Gabriel Stokes
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.48
Summary:

Comments on matters relating to the provision of a reflecting telescope to Melbourne University [see JH's 1862-12-10].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel6470

From:
James Challis
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.238
Summary:

Has read JH's brochure with pleasure. Regarding the alleged obstruseness of some of his own mathematical theories.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3874

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Rivers
Date:
23 Dec [1862]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (23–4 July 1987)
Summary:

CD is collecting [for Variation] all accounts of what some call "sports" and what he calls "bud-variations". He asks whether very slight variations in fruit appear suddenly by buds, or whether only rather strongly marked varieties thus appear.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel4227

From:
William Henry Smyth
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 December 1862]
Source of text:
RS:HS 16.320
Summary:

Directs JH to inquire regarding a pension for John Russell. Note C. P. Smyth's use of Outlines Astr. Mentions Isaac Fletcher as a promising amateur astronomer.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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