To T. H. Huxley 5 March 1881
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CD tells how it came about that Anthony Rich bequeathed his house and land to THH.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1881 |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 359) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13073 |
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| letter | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
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| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
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| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia
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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…
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- … by the cavities formed by this animal.—’ (DAR 31.2: 305). He gave a detailed description and …
Saint Helena
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Curious geological history
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- … Talks of his five days working on the geology of Saint Helena, of meeting the astronomer John …
Darwin in letters, 1882: Nothing too great or too small
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In 1882, Darwin reached his 74th year Earthworms had been published the previous October, and for the first time in decades he was not working on another book. He remained active in botanical research, however. Building on his recent studies in plant…
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- … to J. H. Gilbert, 12 January 1882 ). In Earthworms , p. 305, Darwin had remarked on the …
