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From:
John Tyndall
To:
John Frederick William Herschel
Date:
4th. Jan
Source of text:
HS/392a, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
From:
John Tyndall
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[4 January 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.392a (C: RI 520)
Summary:

Asks permission to print extract of JH's letter on heat spots of spectrum of rock salt sample. Hopes JH's son [Alexander] will speak at Royal Institution; JT would help with illustration. Wonders how blue color of water relates to sky color and polarization.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
4 Jan [1863]
Source of text:
DAR 263: 58
Summary:

Praises JL’s article ["North American archaeology", Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 1–26]

and Hugh Falconer on the American fossil elephant [Nat. Hist. Rev. n.s. 3 (1863): 43–114].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Dr Thomas Anderson
Date:
4 January 1863
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/1 f.49-50, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project