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From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

William Boyd Dawkins

Date:

3 Feb 1873

Source of text:

Cambridge University Archives (GEOL 9/*1 2b)

Summary:

A letter of recommendation for W. B. Dawkins in his application for the Woodwardian professorship of geology in the university of Cambridge.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

Francis Stephen Bennet François de Chaumont

Date:

3 Feb [1873]

Source of text:

Wellcome Collection (RAMC/474/2); Trustees of the Army Medical Services Museum

Summary:

Thanks for J. D. MacDonald’s paper ["Distribution of invertebrata", Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 21 (1872–3): 218–23].

CD feels lines of genetic connection between animals offer a most difficult problem; Ernst Haeckel may have done mischief by facing the difficulty.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project