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Letter from [Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker] to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Ghent incomplete, 1845-02-21 - 1845-02-28

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Reference Code: GBR/0012/MS DAR 100: 165-166
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Letter from [Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker] to Charles Robert Darwin; written at Ghent incomplete


(Letter)

Dates: 1845-02-21 - 1845-02-28
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Observations and calculations of longitude, 1857 - 1862

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Reference Code: GBR/0180/RGO 6/115
Scope and Contents Observations, reports and calculations for the longitude of places in North America by W.B. Jack; the longitude of Chicago; differences in longitude observed by Pulkova and Dorpat; longitudes of places in Australia; and the longitudes of Shanghai, Paris, Vienna, Ghent, Brussels, New Westminster, Canada, Williamstown, Victoria and Newton Abbot, Devon. The volume also includes various works, maps, reports, observations and correspondence on solar eclipses. There is substantial material on the...
Dates: 1857 - 1862
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