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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

David Thomas Ansted

Date:

[c. Jan 1845]

Source of text:

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (George P. Merrill photograph collection, Record Unit 7177, Image No. SIA2016-009765)

Summary:

Asks about Fuegian specimens stored at the Geological Society. CD needs them soon.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

John Stevens Henslow

Date:

28 Oct [1845]

Source of text:

Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)

Summary:

Comments on potato disease and its effects on the poor.

Describes visit to his Lincolnshire farm,

to York where he discussed hybrids with the Dean of Manchester [William Herbert],

his meeting with Charles Waterton, and his delight with Chatsworth.

Disappointed at Hooker’s failure to receive the Edinburgh chair; believes JDH will make a great botanist.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project