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To the Secretary, Royal Society    18 November [1855]

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Reluctantly agrees to write a paper (the citation of award of the Royal Medal to J. O. Westwood [Abstracts and papers of RSL 1855]), but feels unfitted for the job.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Society of London
Date:  18 Nov [1855]
Classmark:  DAR 249: 112
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1782A

To the Royal Society   19 March 1855

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Recommends publication of Leonard Horner’s account of researches in alluvial deposits of Egypt [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 145 (1855): 105–38]. It contains valuable observations which will probably become of still higher value in future.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Sharpey; Royal Society of London
Date:  19 Mar 1855
Classmark:  The Royal Society (RR2: 111)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1650
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