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DCP-LETT-4323

From:
Henry Walter Bates
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 160: 78
Summary:

Returns Gray’s review [of paper on mimetic analogy, Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 36 (1863): 285–90]

and expresses his sorrow over CD’s health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel13757

From:
George Phillips Bond
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0110; Reel 1087
Summary:

Read of JH's intention to prepare general catalogue of nebulae. Encloses list of unpublished nebulae found at Harvard over past 15 years. Finds similarity in form but difference in theory between JH's equations for curve of object glasses ['On Aberrations of Compound Lenses and Object Glasses' (1821)] and those of K. A. Steinheil and C. F. Gauss. Asks about Josef Fraunhofer's theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11095

From:
James Prescott Joule
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.430
Summary:

Much obliged for his letters regarding the amalgam of iron. Cannot account for his ignorance of JH's Bakerian lecture.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4322

From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
24 Oct 1863
Source of text:
DAR 170: 42
Summary:

Sorry to hear of CD’s poor health.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6843

From:
Warren de La Rue
To:
[Charles] Pritchard
Date:
[24 October 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.151
Summary:

Regarding the 'willow leaves' seen by James Nasmyth on the surface of the sun.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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