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From:
Alexander R. Clarke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.345
Summary:

Thanks for sending him his essay on the yard, pendulum and metre. Hopes it will engage the attention of the public. A measure of 50" would be very convenient.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4343F

From:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
To:
Friedrich Hermann Gustav (Friedrich) Hildebrand
Date:
20 Nov [1863]
Source of text:
Courtesy of Eilo Hildebrand (photocopy) (Original, previously owned by Klaus Groove, sold by Venator and Hanstein, Cologne (dealers), 16 March 2018.)
Summary:

ED writes on behalf of her husband, who is ill, to thank FH for his letter

and to thank [L. C.] Treviranus for his paper on orchids.

CD wishes to know whether Orchis pyramidalis grows in FH’s neighbourhood. He needs a fresh specimen to compare the stigma with those grown locally.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4316

From:
Robert Monsey Rolfe, 1st Baron Cranworth of Cranworth
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[20 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 161.2: 230
Summary:

Sends annual cheque for Down parish charities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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