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To H. N. Moseley   25 September 1881

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)

Sept. 25th 1881

My dear Mr. Moseley

I earnestly hope that you may be elected Linacre Professor at Oxford, for from my knowledge of your several works & from personal acquaintance with you, I am convinced that no other Zoologist in Grt Britain, who is competent to be a candidate, is so well fitted for the place & so likely to advance natural science in Oxford.1

I remain, Yours very sincerely | Charles Darwin

To | H. N. Moseley F.R.S.

1
Moseley had asked CD to provide a testimonial in support of his application to succeed George Rolleston as Linacre Professor of anatomy and physiology at Oxford University (see letter from H. N. Moseley, 24 September 1881).

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Please cite as “DCP-LETT-13355,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-13355