To Caroline Darwin 27 February 1837

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Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 2.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-346,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 15 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-346

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Has just given a paper [on "Sand tubes"] at Cambridge Philosophical Society and exhibited some specimens. It went well, with Whewell and Sedgwick taking an active part.

Herschel thinks 6000–odd years since the creation not nearly long enough to explain the separations from a single stock.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-346
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin/Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date: 27 Feb 1837
Sent from: Cambridge
Source of text: DAR 154: 51
Physical description: C 4pp

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