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darwin’s birthplace. 
‘ Mount House, Frankwell, Shrewsbury, Charles Darwin’s 
birthplace, has been bought by His Majesty’s Office of Works, 
for the accommodation of a body of clerks. The purchase 
includes the famous Darwin Walk. The illustration gives a 
view of the Mount, as seen from the Castle, which was sketched 
by Mr. Worthington G. Smith in 1881, to whom the house 
was pointed out as one of the sights of Shrewsbury.’ The 
above note appears in The Gardener s Chronicle, No. 1815, to 
the editor of which we are indebted for permission to repro- 
duce the block to which reference is made. 
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1922 Feb. 1 
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