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CHARLES DARWIN

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Charles Darwin Letter Recovered After 140 Years

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Jul 18, 2016

  More than 30 years ago, a Smithsonian intern came upon a letter written in 1875 by famed evolution theorist Charles Darwin. The letter was part of a collection of North American geology documents sent to the museum for archiving. …