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To Cuthbert Collingwood   16 February [1866]

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Regrets that his health prevents their meeting, but offers some suggestions for the expedition to the Malay Archipelago and coast of China: the search of caverns in the Malay Archipelago for fossil bones, deep sea dredging in the tropics, glacial action in any moderately steep mountains, means of geographical distribution, the history of domestic animals in these regions, and gestures and expressions of real savages as compared with our civilised expressions. [See 5008 and 5011.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Cuthbert Collingwood
Date:  16 Feb [1866]
Classmark:  DAR 185: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5008B

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  • … vol.  12, letter from J.  D.  Hooker, 29 March 1864  and n.  18). Collingwood reported …

From Cuthbert Collingwood   15 February 1866

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Going to Orient as naturalist aboard the Rifleman. Offers CD his services.

Author:  Cuthbert Collingwood
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  15 Feb 1866
Classmark:  DAR 161: 212
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5008

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  • J.  D.  Hooker, 4 February 1866  and n.  4. For Collingwood’s overland journey to Hong Kong, see Collingwood 1868 , pp.  1–22. John William Reed was master in command of the surveying vessel HMS Rifleman in the China Sea ( Navy list 1864– …