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From S. B. J. Skertchly   16 February [1880]

Handed in at the Edingburgh Office at 5.26 .M., Received here at 6.35 .M.

From | SBJ Skertchly | Edingburgh | To | Charles Darwin | Down | Bromley Kent

will you Kindly Telegraph testimonial as to my Cientific attainments especially in natural History am Candidate for chair of Biology Inotage and things have to be settled forthwith you can judge by my books of my fitness will pay all expences please be sure and reply1

Telegram

Date stamp: FE 16 80

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The institution to which Skertchly applied was probably the University of Otago in New Zealand, where the chair in biology was filled in early 1880 (Morrell 1969, p. 61). He was an assistant geologist with the British Geological Survey at this time, but retired from that post in 1881 (Flett 1937, p. 258).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12487,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12487