From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter
Date:
2 Oct [1847?]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections
Summary:
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.
Gratitude for receipt of JH's Cape Results. Congratulates JH on completion of many years' labor.
The equatorial on the Dublin Observatory dome needs improvement. In the last fifty-two months, WH has seen three new planets: Neptune, Iris, and Flora.
Just learned that American ambassador George Bancroft is disappointed at not receiving presentation copy [of JH's Cape Results].