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To V. O. Kovalevsky   24 January [1874]

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Has ordered James Clerk Maxwell’s book [On the stability of the motion of Saturn’s rings (1859)] as a present for Sofya Kovalevsky.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Date:  24 Jan [1874]
Classmark:  Institut Mittag-Leffler
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9253

From V. O. Kovalevsky   20 January 1874

Summary

Russian Expression has sold nearly 2000 copies.

Plans to come to England to study collections of vertebrate fossils from the Chalk. This will complement his work in the south of France.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Jan 1874
Classmark:  DAR 169: 95
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9251

From V. O. Kovalevsky   27 January 1874

Summary

On obtaining Clerk Maxwell’s memoir on Saturn for his wife, Sofya.

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  27 Jan 1874
Classmark:  DAR 169: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9257

From V. O. Kovalevsky   25 May 1874

Summary

Regret at reading of Huxley’s death [a false report].

Author:  Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  25 May 1874
Classmark:  DAR 169: 97
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9469
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