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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[1 June 1865]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 28
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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MS arrived. Has glanced at it and sees he must put on his sharpest spectacles and best considering cap.
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Reports a monstrous pig that looks like an elephant. It was born of a pregnant sow which had been frightened by a circus elephant. He offers the monster, which died at birth, to any London museum.
Responds to a paper by Dr. Barnard, in which is propounded a view of dispersion of light being related to its intensity.