To Anthony Carlisle [19 December 1836]
[Cambridge]
[Read a Letter of the 19th Instant from Mr Charles Darwin of Christs College, Cambridge stating that understanding from the Conservators that a Series of fossil Bones collected during the voyage of H:M: Surveying Vessel Beagle possesses a peculiar Interest as connected with Specimens already in the Museum of this College that it had always been his intention to present such Bones to some public collection on the condition that Casts thereof should be given to the leading Public Bodies for the sake of making them more generally useful, specifying the British Museum the Geological Society and the Univer- sities of Cambridge and Oxford, and one set for himself: and that under such Conditions he should be most happy to present the entire series to the Museum of this College.]1
Footnotes
Summary
"Read a letter [to AC] of the 19th Instant from Mr Charles Darwin of Christs College, Cambridge stating that understanding from the Conservators that a Series of fossil Bones collected during the voyage of H: M: Surveying Vessel Beagle possesses a peculiar Interest as connected with Specimens already in the Museum of this College that it had always been his intention to present such Bones to some public collection on the condition that Casts thereof should be given to the leading Public Bodies for the sake of making them more generally useful, specifying the British Museum the Geological Society and the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and one set for himself: and that under such Conditions he should be most happy to present the entire series to the Museum of this College."
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-330
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Anthony Carlisle; Royal College of Surgeons of England
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- The Royal College of Surgeons of England (Minute book of Board of Curators MUS/2/1/4)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 330,” accessed on 13 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-330.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 1