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DCP-LETT-1085

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 89
Summary:

Delighted that Brongniart thinks Sigillaria aquatic, and that E. W. Binney thinks coal is a sort of submarine peat. Thinks coal-plants will prove to be aquatic, though JDH will sneer at this.

Has acquired a new microscope.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Herschel14444

From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1847-5]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0531; Reel 1093
Summary:

Arranges concurrent meetings of Standards Committee and Visitation [to Greenwich observatory]. Possible explanation for notations in [Thomas Henderson's] 'tables at June 11.' Please review and edit 'Preface to Lalande.' Will write to [Elizabeth] Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9581

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
John S. Forbes
Date:
1847-[5]
Source of text:
RS:HS 7.322 (C: RS:HS 22.315)
Summary:

Comments on the paper he has sent him. Finds it difficult to give an opinion as so much verification is required.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1084

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 1 May 1847]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 277
Summary:

[Extract of letter to WJH from T. E. Cantor] on zoological distribution in the Malay Peninsula.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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