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To John Phillips   31 March [1874]

Summary

Regrets he cannot visit Oxford.

Comments on sketches in letter from JP [9360].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Phillips
Date:  31 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.439)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9379

From T. H. Huxley   31 March 1874

Summary

His note on brain [in man and apes for 2d ed. of Descent] nearly finished.

Has heard nothing about Dohrn.

THH has been invited to lecture in America.

Author:  Thomas Henry Huxley
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  31 Mar 1874
Classmark:  DAR 166: 332
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9380

To J. S. Burdon Sanderson   31 March [1874]

Summary

Thanks for the careful experiments, particularly on organic acids.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Scott Burdon Sanderson, 1st baronet
Date:  31 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  University of British Columbia Library, Rare Books and Special Collections (Darwin - Burdon Sanderson letters RBSC-ARC-1731-1-5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9381

To Albert Wigand   31 March 1874

Summary

Confirms receipt of a book that had been lost by the Post Office (Vol. 1 Der Darwinismus und die Naturforschung Newtons und Cuviers (Darwinism and the natural researches of Newton and Cuvier; Wigand 1874–7).

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julius Wilhelm Albert (Albert) Wigand
Date:  31 Mar 1874
Classmark:  Christie’s, London (dealers) (12 July 2017)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9381F
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John Lort Stokes

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John Lort Stokes, naval officer, was Charles Darwin’s cabinmate on the Beagle voyage – not always an enviable position.  After Darwin’s death, Stokes penned a description of their evenings spent working at the large table at the centre, Stokes at his…

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