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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[27 February 1881?]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 142
Summary:
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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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Discusses some business matters
and E. A. Darwin’s health.
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.
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