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DCP-LETT-4327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Oliver
Date:
[before 27 Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 261.10: 53 (EH 88206036)
Summary:

Recommends Wyman’s short notice ["Report on Dr Jeffries Wyman’s experiment on the cause of contractility in vegetable tissues"] in the Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 3 (1852–7): 167.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel6352

From:
Emma Buckle
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
27 November [1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.116
Summary:

Is grateful for his letter. Thomas Graham will forward a letter of recommendation with the memorial and she would also like a note from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel4878

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 November 1863]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.265
Summary:

Requesting JH to write to Thomas Maclear to get him to finish his work on the Trigonometrical Survey of the Cape.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4348

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
27 [Nov 1863]
Source of text:
DAR 115: 212; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Asa Gray correspondence: 333)
Summary:

On Wedgwood vases for JDH.

Willy Hooker’s scarlet fever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Tyndall2045

From:
John Tyndall
To:
Julius Haast
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
MS-Papers Turnbull 0037-143, Alexander Turnbull Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project

DCP-LETT-4349

From:
Daniel Oliver
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Nov 1863
Source of text:
DAR 173: 24
Summary:

Discusses the contraction of hygroscopic bundles in seed-pods,

and a paper by Hugo von Mohl ["Über dimorphe Blüthen", Bot. Ztg. (1863): 309–15, 321–8] in which he discusses Oxalis and determines that Fumaria is a necessarily self-fertilising plant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel8649

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Griffith
Date:
[27 November 1863]
Source of text:
Manchester Central Library
Summary:

Does not personally know any members of the committee [Committee for the Restoration of the Standards] except Prof. [William Hallowes] Miller. Consequently, asks GG to distribute JH's paper 'officially.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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