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From E. S. Galton   31 March 1879

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Sends drawings of several of Dr Erasmus Darwin’s residences, together with suggestions of sources of other material.

Author:  Emma Sophia Galton
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1879
Classmark:  DAR 99: 181–2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11962

From A. G. Butler   31 March 1879

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Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.

Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.

Author:  Arthur Gardiner Butler
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1879
Classmark:  DAR 160: 390
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11963

To E. A. Wheler   31 March [1879]

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Requests information about a travel route used by their grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. Thanks FG for his help.

CD is "now trying to find out how far the Zoonomia influenced medical practice in England".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Elizabeth Anne Galton; Elizabeth Anne Wheler
Date:  31 Mar [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 105
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11963A
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John Lort Stokes

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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position.  After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…

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  • … on the coast fronting the barrier reef?’ (Stokes 1846 1: 331) Stokes spent his final …