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Down Bromley Kent

March 22^d/58

Dear Sir

M^r Horner's "Account of some recent Researches near Cairo" ought, in my opinion, to be published in full in the Philosoph. Transactions. Considering the importance of any investigation leading to the result that Man has existed in Ægypt for between 13,000 & 14,000 years, I think that all the details & sections, though given with great minuteness, should be published, as possibly being hereafter of great assistance to some future investigator.

Dear Sir

Yours faithfully

Ch. Darwin

To the Sec^y.

Royal Soc^y. —

Horner's paper was published as: Horner, Leonard. 1858. An account of some recent researches near Cairo, undertaken with the view of throwing light upon the geological history of the alluvial land of Egypt. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 148: 53-92. See Correspondence vol. 7.