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DCP-LETT-10822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Harriet Henslow; Frances Harriet Hooker
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (13 September 1984)
Summary:

Thanks for congratulations on George’s attaining Second Wrangler.

George will try for a fellowship at Trinity.

CD believes real education begins after school days.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2670

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites
Date:
31 Jan [1868]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.325)
Summary:

Asks GHKT about eyes of screaming elephants.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-5820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[31 Jan 1868]
Source of text:
DAR 94: 43
Summary:

Royal Society Council would feel bound to vote for Candolle, but privately would twenty times rather see Asa Gray elected.

Asks for title of Wollaston’s Cape Verde book [Coleoptera Hesperidum (1867)].

Supposes JDH has received his letter in answer to Gray.

Has been writing two long papers for Linnean Society [reprinted in Forms of flowers].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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