As a. result of ilie publicity given to the discoA'ery in an old inn at Farnborougli of tho first coffin made for Charles Darwin, Professor Karl Pearson. Avbo occupies Ibc Chair of Eugenics at London University, has offered to buy the coffin for exhibition in tho uniAorsity. !i is stated that the body of Darwin lay in the coffin for a time, after his death, a. most elaborate one Ivcing provided when it was decided to bury him in Westminster Abbey. Ilis name and the date of his death appear on a plate on flic coffin, which it- takes two- men to lift. Professor Pearson in his letter says: “It is a pity the coffin should bo made a show of for the idle crowd.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17564, 15 June 1925, Page 10
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