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Herschel3272

From:
James Syme
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 August 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.252
Summary:

Having read JH's article on light, sends observations on peculiar effects of light, particularly 'terrestrial refraction,' on rifle-shooting targets.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4603

From:
Ellen Frances Hordern; Ellen Frances Lubbock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[27 Aug – 1 Sept 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 170: 10
Summary:

JL is in France with J. Steenstrup.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel9799

From:
James Glaisher
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 August 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.134
Summary:

Do not send the whole parcel; one form for each month is all he requires. Has not received the report of the Luminous Committee yet. Has sent Harrow's bill to JH's son.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11195

From:
R. Arthur Kinglake
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 August 1865]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.85
Summary:

Sending a photograph of John Locke the philosopher. Trying to raise a fund to provide a memorial for Thomas Young. Would be pleased if JH would subscribe to it. RK's brother is the author of a work on the Crimean War.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-4885A

From:
Johann Friedrich Theodor (Fritz) Müller
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Aug 1865
Source of text:
Möller ed. 1915–21 , 2: 73–4.
Summary:

Hopes CD has received his letter of 12 August.

Sends some new observations on climbing plants. [The observations are part of "Notes on some of the climbing-plants, near Desterro, in South Brazil", J. Linn. Soc. (Bot.) 9 (1867): 344–9.]

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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