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To W. D. Fox   22 February [1858]

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Thanks for Hewitson [British oology].

Has found more variability in birds’ nests than he expected.

Interested in WDF’s note about turkey terrified by a frog [see Natural selection, p. 488 n.].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Darwin Fox
Date:  22 Feb [1858]
Classmark:  Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 111)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2219

To Charles Cardale Babington   22 February [1858]

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CD and J. D. Hooker have differed on the following question and agreed to ask several botanists: would a good botanist describing a local flora record varieties as readily in large as in small genera?

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Cardale Babington
Date:  22 Feb [1858]
Classmark:  Cambridge University Library (MS Add.8182: 20)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2220

From Edward Blyth   22 February 1858

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Gives some observations on birds; has forwarded a box of specimens.

Author:  Edward Blyth
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  22 Feb 1858
Classmark:  DAR 160: 202
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2221
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2.22 L.-J. Chavalliaud statue in Liverpool

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< Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being commissioned by the Shropshire Horticultural Society for his native town of Shrewsbury, his transformative contributions to the sciences of botany and horticulture were also…

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  • … < Back to Introduction At about the time when a statue of Darwin was being …

Santa Fé, Argentina

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Inland trips

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  • … Writes of his journey from Rio Negro to Bahia Blanca, and his illness on an expedition to Santa Fé …

Origin: the lost changes for the second German edition

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Darwin sent a list of changes made uniquely to the second German edition of Origin to its translator, Heinrich Georg Bronn.  That lost list is recreated here.

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  • … I could have given no answer’. 21   Page 222, par. 1, line 3, substitute for ‘on high …

1.14 William Richmond, oil

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< Back to Introduction William Blake Richmond’s portrait of Darwin, dating from 1879, celebrated his honorary degree of LL.D (Doctor in Laws), awarded by Cambridge University in 1877. Darwin’s return to his alma mater for the presentation ceremony…

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  • … , 3 vols (London: John Murray, 1887, 1888), vol. 3, p. 222, and catalogue of portraits, p. 371. …
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