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DCP-LETT-4925

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
27 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 43
Summary:

Asks CD to support his candidacy for Professorship of Zoology at Cambridge. Since he has spent many years travelling, he is not well enough known at the University.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-4927

From:
Alfred Newton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
30 Oct 1865
Source of text:
DAR 172: 45
Summary:

CD need not apologise for not writing a testimonial for him. He knows comparative anatomy, although he has confined his publication to ornithology. Agrees that with a few members of the University a recommendation from CD would be harmful.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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