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To W. H. Flower   [1871?]1

Down. | Bromley. | Kent. S.E.

My dear Mr Flower

I am ashamed to say that I do not know the rules for admission to your museum.2

My son, the bearer of this, is now attending to anatomy & wishes much to inspect some of the preparations; will you therefore be so kind as to turn him loose, if permitted into the Museum.

Pray believe me | yours sincerely | Ch. Darwin

LS

1
The year is conjectured on the assumption that the son mentioned in the letter is Francis, who studied to become a physician at St George’s Hospital, London, after leaving Cambridge at the end of 1870 (F. Darwin 1920, p. 67; The Times, 19 December 1870, p. 6).
2
Flower was conservator of the Hunterian Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons (ODNB).

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-5767,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-5767