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Herschel2418

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 February 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.268
Summary:

Sends [Warren] de La Rue's letter on Southern[?] Telescope for JH's review. Swedish Academy working on reviving project of measuring arc of meridian.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-3993F

From:
Richard Frean
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
Launceston Library (State Library of Tasmania): Local Studies Collection – Manuscripts (Robert Norman Smith Diaries and correspondence LMSS 0020)
Summary:

Discusses his reading and understanding of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Tyndall1974

From:
Geraldine Jewsbury
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
Monday Feb 17-63
Source of text:
MS JT/1/J/29; MS JT/1/TYP/2/656, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-3993

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
17 [Feb 1863]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.288)
Summary:

Criticises Dana’s classification of man and his use of fore-limbs as a basis for systematic classification.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-8770

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 20
Summary:

DO thinks an essay [Alexander Braun’s "Rejuvenescence", Ray Society (1853)] is not worth reading with respect to some difficulty concerning phyllotaxy.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-3994

From:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
17 Feb 1863
Source of text:
DAR 109: A94
Summary:

Replies to CD’s letter: dimorphism common in Ceylon Rubiaceae. [See Forms of flowers, p. 286.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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