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From E. A. Darwin   [before 20 February 1866?]

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Lyell calculates enviously that CD can do more work than any of the philosophers.

Author:  Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [before 20 Feb 1866?]
Classmark:  DAR 105: B52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-4965

From Cuthbert Collingwood   20 February 1866

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Thanks for CD’s suggestions. [From CD’s notes on CC’s previous letter, these were (1) means of distribution; (2) domestic animals; (3) gestures of savages.]

Author:  Cuthbert Collingwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 Feb 1866
Classmark:  DAR 161: 213
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5011

From C. J. F. Bunbury to Charles Lyell   20 February 1866

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Discusses CD’s and J. D. Hooker’s letters to Lyell concerning Louis Agassiz’s theory of the glaciation of the Amazon basin in Brazil.

Author:  Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  20 Feb 1866
Classmark:  F. J. Bunbury ed. 1891–3, Later life 1: 144–7
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5011F
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2.20 Montford, terracotta bust, NPG

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< Back to Introduction Horace Montford presented this terracotta bust of Darwin to the National Portrait Gallery in January 1905. He explained that it was the model for the bronze busts commissioned by Andrew Carnegie in 1901, one of which is now in…

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  • … < Back to Introduction Horace Montford presented this terracotta bust of Darwin to …

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'the Owen Constitution'

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  • … A close Shrewsbury friend gives news from back home of other friends and acquaintances. …

2.6 Adolf von Hildebrand bust

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< Back to Introduction In 1873, the German biologist Anton Dohrn commissioned a plaster bust of Darwin for the ‘fresco room’ of his new research centre, the Stazione Zoologica in Naples. It was a fitting memorial of a long association between the two…

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  • … in the library, of which there is a photograph (pp. 218, 220). Christiane Groeben and Irmgard Müller …