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To William Whewell   [10 March 1837]

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CD seeks to decline the Secretaryship [of the Geological Society] by citing his obligation to FitzRoy to write his volume of the narrative of their expedition. His youth, inexperience, and ignorance of English geology.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Whewell
Date:  [10 Mar 1837]
Classmark:  Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 2)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-347

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To William Whewell   18 June [1837]

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Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.

Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Whewell
Date:  18 June [1837]
Classmark:  Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-361

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