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From J. W. Judd   9 December 1879

Science and Art Department | South Kensington Science Schools. | S. Kensington | S.W.

9th. Decr. 1879

My dear Sir,

I greatly regret that I had not the good fortune to be here to-day at the time of your visit—1 The work of the Geological class does not commence till February, after the Biological course closes.

I hope that on some future occasion I may have the opportunity of showing you the arrangements we are making here to teach Geology practically in the field & the laboratory as well as in the lecture-room.2

I greatly rejoice to hear from Prof Huxley3 that you are so well in health—

Believe me to remain, | Yours very faithfully, | John W. Judd

Charles Darwin Esq

1
CD was in London from 3 to 11 December 1879 (Emma Darwin’s diary (DAR 242)).
2
The Royal School of Mines had moved from its original premises in Jermyn Street, London, to South Kensington; the physics, chemistry, and natural history departments had moved in 1872, and the geological department in 1877. Laboratory work had been impossible for the geological department at their previous location in Jermyn Street. (T. G. Chambers 1896, pp. xxxvi–xxxvii.)

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