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To Samuel Wilks   27 July 1879

Down, Beckenham,

27 July 1879

[Thanking him for sending the text of a recent oration by Wilks (which Darwin was unable wholly to follow when it was delivered) and thanking him also for an article on parrots.]1

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See letter from Samuel Wilks, 26 July 1879 and n. 1. Wilks had sent CD a copy of his Harveian oration (Wilks 1879a) and evidently included a copy of his recent article in the Journal of Mental Science, ‘Notes from the history of my parrot, in reference to the nature of language’ (Wilks 1879b). CD’s copy of Wilks 1879b is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12176,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12176