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Darwin in his own words

By Shelley Innes and Alison Pearn

4 February 2009

“My whole soul is absorbed with worms just at present!”

To , 23 November 1880, when Darwin was working on his final publication . Published the following year, just six months before he died, it shows that he retained an undiminished, almost childlike passion for his research. Shelley Innes

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To , 29 June 1858. Darwin was famously absent from the meeting of two days later…

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