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Tyndall2219

From:
Jean François Léonard Alexandre de Colnet d’Huart
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
le 29 janvier 1865
Source of text:
MS JT/1/D/137, RI
Summary:

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Contributor:
Tyndall Project

Herschel11517

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Sir Charles Lyell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.430 & 24.83
Summary:

Sending a lump of a substance quarried near Edenderry; has found some very similar in a quarry of his own. Can send some more specimens. Congratulations on his Baronetcy. Has been prostrated with bronchitis.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9225

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[29 January 1865]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.207116 (C: RS:HS 24.82)
Summary:

Sends Book XIV of JH's Iliad translation. Fears he may not live to finish it and may not find a publisher. Glorious winter in England. Son William and wife have arrived in Calcutta.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4757

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
29 Jan [1865]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add. MS 46434, f. 49)
Summary:

Commends ARW’s papers on parrots

and on the theory of geographical distribution [see 4750].

Wild pigs in Aru Islands must have been introduced and later ran wild. Does ARW have an opinion on the subject?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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