Now that #GrantAllen's "time is not quite so filled now with hack-work as formerly," he can enjoy using the telescope that "[#Darwin] and the other kind friends" bought for him.

What treasures {or horrors, as the case may sometimes be} might the Darwin Correspondence Project at #CambridgeUL reveal about your #C19 passions?

#histodons #scihistodons #hstm #victodons

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13736.xml&query=grant%20allen

Now that #GrantAllen's "time is not quite so filled now with hack-work as formerly," he can enjoy using the telescope that "[#Darwin] and the other kind friends" bought for him.

What treasures {or horrors, as the case may sometimes be} might the Darwin Correspondence Project at #CambridgeUL reveal about your #C19 passions?

#histodons #scihistodons #hstm #victodons

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13736.xml&query=grant%20allen

To celebrate the 163rd anniversary of the publication of Origin of Species today, the Darwin Correspondence Project at #CambridgeUL has published the full edition of #Darwin 's correspondence online! Explore more than 15000 letters, from Darwin's first letter in 1822 to his death in 1882.

Much as I like physical books, it's really exciting to have the collected correspondence now full-text searchable:

https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/full-edition-now-online

#histodons #scihistodons #hstm #victodons