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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, G. H.
Date:
8 February 1881
Source of text:
DAR 210.3: 3
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Darwin Family Letters
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Describes lecture at Royal Institution by J. S. Burdon Sanderson on movement of plants and animals; JSBS’s preliminary part was so long that he never got to the plants.
Comments on the triumph of the ladies in the voting at Cambridge.
Mentions F. Galton’s visit to Down, a call on the Huxleys, and a visit with the Duke of Argyll.
Tells a story about the absent-mindedness of Burdon Sanderson.