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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Litchfield, H. E.
Date:
[c. 25 October 1877]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 167
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
No summary available.
Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.
CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.
CD and Emma are delighted with forthcoming marriage of W. E. Darwin to Sara [Sedgwick].
Enlists CD’s support for a marine biological research institution to be built soon on Jersey.
CD awarded honorary LL.D. degree by Cambridge University. [See 11212.]