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Strange things sent to Darwin in the post

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Some of the stranger things Darwin received in the post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the ornithologist Alfred Newton sent him a diseased, red-legged partridge foot with an enormous ball of clay…

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  • … post can tell us a lot about how Darwin worked at home. In 1863, Darwin was very excited when the …
  • … Hooker’s throat . The final tally was 82 plants when Newton asked for the foot back to …

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Re: Design – Adaptation of the Correspondence of Charles Darwin, Asa Gray and others… by Craig Baxter – as performed 25 March 2007

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  • expresses his Christian belief and Darwin discovers that Alfred Wallace has developed his own
  • The contents of the package (an essay from New Guinea from Alfred Russel Wallace) throws Darwin into
  • intellect. A dog might as well speculate on the mind of Newton.  / Let each man hope and believe
  • of your darling. BOOKS BY THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN: 1863-1865 In which Drwin struggles
  • were laid to rest in Westminster Abbey, near to those of Newton. [A setting of Proverbs, Chapter 13, …
  • 1860 98 A GRAY TO ALPHONSE DE CANDOLLE, 16 FEB 1863 99  C DARWIN TO LYELL, …
  • 1862 149 C DARWIN TO J. D. HOOKER 26 JULY 1863 150 C DARWIN TO J. D. …
  • JULY 1864 160  C DARWIN TO JD HOOKER, 3 JAN 1863 161  TO ASA GRAY 13
  • 1862 164  C Darwin TO ASA GRAY, 23 FEBRUARY 1863 165  A Gray TO C Darwin
  • APRIL 1866 173  C DARWIN TO ASA GRAY 20 APRIL 1863 174 FROM A GRAY TO
  • STAY 1881 192  C DARWIN TO A GRAY, 19 JANUARY 1863 193  TO A GRAY 9 AUGUST