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Letter from paleontologist Richard Owen to the Right Honourable Spencer Horatio Walpole. The letter gives a brief overview of Charles Darwin's achievements and their value to science. He calls Darwin "our British 'Copernicus of Biology'" and adds his support for a statue memorialising him in Westminster Abbey and the Natural History Museum.
Spencer Walpole was Home Secretary in several British governments and a trustee of the Natural History Museum in London.
[From the collection of The Charles Darwin Trust, formerly kept at Cambridge University Library] |
