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To G. H. Darwin   19 November [1881]

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Tremendously interested by GHD’s news [about the Plumian Professorship at Cambridge]. Suggests he get William Thomson to write to the electors.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Howard Darwin
Date:  19 Nov [1881]
Classmark:  DAR 210.1.: 111
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13489

To T. L. Brunton   19 November 1881

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Wishes to contribute to subscription to pay legal expenses of David Ferrier [in vivisection prosecution].

Comments on physiological papers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet
Date:  19 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 143: 171
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13490

From Adolphe Damseaux   19 November 1881

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AD asks CD’s advice on possible causes of a decline in the Belgian hop crop.

Author:  Adolphe Damseaux
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Nov 1881
Classmark:  DAR 162: 37
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13491
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Darwin & Glen Roy

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Although Darwin was best known for his geological work in South America and other remote Beagle destinations, he made one noteworthy attempt to explain a puzzling feature of British geology.  In 1838, two years after returning from the voyage, he travelled…

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  • … Walk in Darwin’s footsteps:    Click this link to download a field guide to Glen Roy written …