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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Anthony Carlisle; Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date:
[19 Dec 1836]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (Minute book of Board of Curators MUS/2/1/4)
Summary:

"Read a letter [to AC] of the 19th Instant from Mr Charles Darwin of Christs College, Cambridge stating that understanding from the Conservators that a Series of fossil Bones collected during the voyage of H: M: Surveying Vessel Beagle possesses a peculiar Interest as connected with Specimens already in the Museum of this College that it had always been his intention to present such Bones to some public collection on the condition that Casts thereof should be given to the leading Public Bodies for the sake of making them more generally useful, specifying the British Museum the Geological Society and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and one set for himself: and that under such Conditions he should be most happy to present the entire series to the Museum of this College."

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Darwin Correspondence Project