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To [the Royal College of Surgeons of England]   28 December [1860]

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Dec. 28th

Dear Sir

Would you be so kind as to inform me whether Prof. Owen has published during the last year, an Edition of John Hunters new work,.1 I saw about a year ago an announcement to the effect that such was to be published.— To save you trouble I enclose envelope.

Dear Sir | Yours faithfully | C. Darwin

Endorsement: ‘1860 | C. Darwin | Dec 29’

1
John Hunter’s Memoranda on vegetation (Hunter 1860) was published posthumously by the Royal College of Surgeons; Richard Owen was Hunterian Professor of comparative anatomy and physiology at the college. CD’s lightly annotated copy of Hunter 1860 is in the Darwin Library–CUL.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

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