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From:
Thomas Salt
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1849
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/11)
Summary:

Discusses the division of R. W. Darwin’s estate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Feb 1849
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

The priority rule has only diverted vanity to a rush to be first. Has no objection to CD’s suggestion that good books be quoted in preference to first descriptions if there is a chance by this means of developing this silly vanity into ambition to advance knowledge. Still, this must not affect the rule of priority. Responds to CD’s four cases.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project