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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Date:
5 May [1847]
Source of text:
Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
Summary:

Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Richard Sheepshanks
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0944; Reel 1083
Summary:

Encloses letter from W. S. Stratford at R.A.S. How RS plans to distribute works on J. J. L. Lalande and N. L. Lacaille left unfinished at death of Francis Baily.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James Clark Ross
Date:
[5 May 1847]
Source of text:
RS Sa.654
Summary:

Speculates on name for JR's 'hot and cold basins' and on causes of equatorial heat and polar cold.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Samuel Stratford
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 May 1847]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0546.5; Reel 1093
Summary:

Looking forward to learning JH's opinion of Richard Sheepshanks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project