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From V. H. Darwin   28 May [1879]

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Will attempt to copy the drawing of Elston Hall [Erasmus Darwin, p. 3]. Does not remember the highway robber story [ibid., pp. 64–5].

Author:  Violetta Harriot Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  28 May [1879]
Classmark:  DAR 99: 169–70
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12065

To G. G. Stokes   28 May 1879

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Reports on Joseph Prestwich’s paper, "On the origin of the parallel roads of Lochaber" [read 1 May 1879]. Strongly recommends that the paper be published in Philosophical Transactions [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 170 (1880): 663–726].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Gabriel Stokes, 1st baronet
Date:  28 May 1879
Classmark:  The Royal Society (RR8: 183)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12066
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles

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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…

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  • … forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at another level, to explain the …