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From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.200.100
Summary:

Is working on the correction of calculation errors [see JH's 1863-5-31]; GA and his assistants will deal with the problem of proofreading.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Gosse
Date:
2 June [1863]
Source of text:
Leeds University Library Special Collections (Brotherton Collection: Gosse Correspondence)
Summary:

Can only conjecture that the problem occurs because the plant is not living in its natural conditions. Refers to what he said on Acropera [in Orchids]. Many plants under culture have sexual functions altered.

Asks PHG to look at bee Ophrys at Torquay to see if pollinia are ever removed. "It is my greatest puzzle."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
[2 June 1863]
Source of text:
RGO 6.709.131
Summary:

A letter of introduction asking GA to admit Major Robertson and his sisters to the observatory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John Herschel (son)
Date:
[2?] June 1863
Source of text:
JHS 5.8a
Summary:

Saw J. B. N. Hennessey [who had just come from India] at a Greenwich visitation day, but did not have time to speak to him there. JH will invite him to Collingwood.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project