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Darwin’s handwritten pages from On the Origin of Species go online for the first time

2020-11-23 Darwin’s handwritten pages from On the Origin of Species go online
Darwin’s handwritten letter to his former geology professor at Cambridge where he first mentioned his radical new book, On the Origin of Species (Reproduced with the kind permission of a private collection, USA, and William Huxley Darwin)
Two original pages from the handwritten draft of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, along with rare letters, and never-before-seen reading notes have been added to Darwin Online. This scholarly portal dedicated to naturalist Charles Darwin was founded by Dr John van Wyhe from NUS Biological Sciences and Tembusu College.
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