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DCP-LETT-1523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 July 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 127
Summary:

Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1522

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
17 July [1853]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 84)
Summary:

Discusses Rugby and education in general. The enormous proportion of time spent on classics checks interest "in anything in which reasoning & observation comes into play".

Expresses shock and sympathy on learning of the deaths in WDF’s house.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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