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The Charles Darwin Trust donates collection of Darwin works to The Linnean Society of London

30/05/2014

The Charles Darwin Trust has donated a large collection of works by Charles Darwin to The Linnean Society of London.

This unique collection of Darwin’s manuscripts and publications, together with various Wallace items, were built up by the late Quentin Keynes, a great-grandson of Charles Darwin, and subsequently amplified by our Chairman, Stephen Keynes, Quentin's brother, with items originally inherited by Darwin’s granddaughter, Margaret Keynes, Quentin's and Stephen's mother.

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