From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 Feb 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 110
Summary:
News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
News of Cambridge: the recent examinations; memorial tablet for Marmaduke Ramsay.
Writes concerning the excavation of mammoth remains and plans JSH visit to see them, potentially with Adam Sedgwick but probably not William Whewell. Gives a description of a tusk and other remains in their present state of excavation. States that similar remains in the same stratum of gravel nearby have been destroyed by labourers. Encloses a sketch of the tusk.
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