From C. W. Thomson 22 June 1878
Bonsyde | Linlithgow, N.B.
June 22d | 1878
My dear Sir,
The Professorship of Nat: Hist: in the University of Aberdeen is to be vacant at the close of the current Summer Session— Dr. McIntosh of Murthly is a candidate—and I think his careful work on the Annelids and Nemerteans gives him a good claim.1 He has been my colleague for some years past as Examiner in Zoology in Edin University and he has won our entire confidence in that capacity being at once well-informed and judicious—
Pray do not take the trouble of answering this note, but if you see your way to giving him a help I think his appoint would be an advantage.
Dr. Hoeck has I understand nearly finished the “Challenger” Pycnogonids and I am still reserving the Cirripeds for him— I wish to see his Pycnogonid work before I send them to him.2 One of the Nat: Hist: memoirs is finished— Mr. Davidson on the Brachiopoda— I only wish a larger departmt had been in his hands.3
Believe me with great respect, yours very truly | C. Wyville Thomson
Footnotes
Bibliography
Hoek, Paulus Peronius Cato. 1881. Scientific results of the the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology Part X. Report on the Pycnogonida dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Hoek, Paulus Peronius Cato. 1884. Scientific results of the the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology Part XXVIII. Report on the Cirripedia collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
McIntosh, William Carmichael. 1873–1922. A monograph of the British marine annelids. 4 vols. in 7. London: Ray Society.
Summary
Seeks CD’s support for W. C. M’Intosh, candidate for Chair in Natural History at Aberdeen.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11562
- From
- Charles Wyville Thomson
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Bonsyde
- Source of text
- DAR 178: 116
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 11562,” accessed on 25 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-11562.xml