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DCP-LETT-11014F

From:
Francis Darwin
To:
Paulus Peronius Cato Hoek
Date:
[c. 24 June 1877]
Source of text:
Artis Library (P. P. C. Hoek Archive: Darwin correspondence)
Summary:

CD has written to [Charles] Wyville Thomson in favour of PPCH’s request [for duplicates of Pycnogonida collected by the Challenger expedition], and hopes it will be successful.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11013

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Croom Robertson
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 326
Summary:

Asks permission for French translation [of "Biographical sketch of an infant"].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11014

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
24 June [1877]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (25 July 1972); Kobunso (dealer) (1974)
Summary:

Advises correspondent on adopting a career; "each person shd. follow his natural bent & improve his special abilities".

Strongly recommends study of J. S. Mill’s Logic.

His own zeal for science was most stimulated by Herschel’s Introduction to the study of natural philosophy.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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