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To W. T. Thiselton-Dyer   10 March [1879]

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Thanks for second edition of Duchartre.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Turner Thiselton-Dyer
Date:  10 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Darwin: Letters to Thiselton-Dyer, 1873–81: f. 163)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11921

From C. H. Browning   10 March 1879

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Is reading Origin on inheritance. Reports case of a man who went bald through illness, whose three sons, all born later, also became bald.

Author:  C. H. Browning
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  10 Mar 1879
Classmark:  DAR 160: 333
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11922
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3.10 Ernest Edwards, 'Men of Eminence'

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< Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of published photographs, Portraits of Men of Eminence in Literature, Science and Art, with Biographical Memoirs . . . The Photographs from Life by Ernest Edwards, B.A.…

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  • … < Back to Introduction In 1865 Darwin was invited to feature in another series of …

3.5 William Darwin, photo 2

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< Back to Introduction Darwin’s son William, who had become a banker in Southampton, took the opportunity of a short visit home to Down House in April 1864 to photograph his father afresh. This half-length portrait was the first to show Darwin with a…

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The Mount, Shrewsbury

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Letters from home

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  • … Darwin writes in preparation for the voyage, and his father and sisters write with news from home …

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From J. D. Hooker   26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…

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Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … species - as good as any in the world.    Page 310, par. 1, line 2, insert after ‘preserved.’ …