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RAVENSWORTH,

BROOKLANDS AVENUE,

CAMBRIDGE

Jan 14 09

My dear Shipley

I have a portrait of Charles Darwin in crayon by Saml Lawrence. It is the sketch he made with a view to painting the large picture at Down-

It measures with the frame 2ft 8in by 2ft 1 1/2 inches

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In the Sedwick Museum we have the collection of rocks which he sent home during the voyage of the Beagle— A few of these might be selected and made interesting by an explanatory note—

I have also several series of fossils arranged

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to show species run into one by the intercalation of intermediate forms—

Any of these are at your service—

yours sincerely

T McKenny Hughes

Do you think there is any chance of giving a Dsc to Rothplety this time he was shamefully passed

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over the last time he was in Cambridge?

He succeeded Von Zittel at Munich— I don't think I should ask him unless he is to get a degree—