The Life and Letters of Charles Darwin: Including an Autobiographical Chapter, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1901 - Naturalists |
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... earliest records of the family show the Darwins to have been substantial yeomen residing on the northern bor- ders of Lincolnshire , close to Yorkshire . The name is now very unusual in England , but I believe that it is not unknown in ...
... earliest records of the family show the Darwins to have been substantial yeomen residing on the northern bor- ders of Lincolnshire , close to Yorkshire . The name is now very unusual in England , but I believe that it is not unknown in ...
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... early member of the well - known Spalding Club ; and the celebrated antiquary Dr. Stukeley , in ' An Account of the almost entire Sceleton of a large Animal , ' & c . , published in the ' Philosophical Transactions , ' April and May ...
... early member of the well - known Spalding Club ; and the celebrated antiquary Dr. Stukeley , in ' An Account of the almost entire Sceleton of a large Animal , ' & c . , published in the ' Philosophical Transactions , ' April and May ...
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... earliest correspondents , and Francis Galton , with whom he main- tained a warm friendship for many years . Here also occurs the name of Francis Sacheverel Darwin , who inherited a love of natural history from Erasmus , and transmitted ...
... earliest correspondents , and Francis Galton , with whom he main- tained a warm friendship for many years . Here also occurs the name of Francis Sacheverel Darwin , who inherited a love of natural history from Erasmus , and transmitted ...
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... early age he collected specimens of all kinds . When sixteen years old he was sent for a year to [ Christ Church ] Oxford , but he did not like the place , and thought ( in the words of his father ) that the ' vigour of his mind ...
... early age he collected specimens of all kinds . When sixteen years old he was sent for a year to [ Christ Church ] Oxford , but he did not like the place , and thought ( in the words of his father ) that the ' vigour of his mind ...
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... early and middle manhood . He read much , even whilst a boy , and at school encouraged me to read , lending me books . Our minds and tastes were , however , so different , that I do not think I owe much to him intellectu- ally . I am ...
... early and middle manhood . He read much , even whilst a boy , and at school encouraged me to read , lending me books . Our minds and tastes were , however , so different , that I do not think I owe much to him intellectu- ally . I am ...
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