To ? [after June 1868]
Summary
Testimonial for James Archer, who leaves CD’s service after six months.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Unidentified |
| Date: | [after June 1868] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 54 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5747 |
To Linnean Society 1 June 1868
Summary
Requests 50 copies of his paper ["Offspring of illegitimate unions of di- and trimorphic plants", J. Linn. Soc. Lond. (Bot.) 10 (1869): 393–437].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Linnean Society |
| Date: | 1 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Fellows Files No. 6) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6221 |
To Osbert Salvin 1 June 1868
Summary
Encloses some queries.
Would also like information about proportion of male to female humming-birds.
Reference to OS’s paper in Ibis, vol. 2.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Osbert Salvin |
| Date: | 1 June 1868 |
| Classmark: | Sybil Rampen (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6221A |
To Bryceson Brothers & Co. [after June 1868?]
Summary
Reports the whereabouts of S. J. O’H. Horsman, who has failed to pay for an organ he ordered.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Bryceson Brothers & Co. |
| Date: | [after June 1868?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 96: 68 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6526 |
| letter | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bryceson Brothers & Co. | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Bryceson Brothers & Co. | (1) |
| Linnean Society | (1) |
| Salvin, Osbert | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
2.12 Allan Wyon, Royal Society medal
Summary
< Back to Introduction The Darwin medal of the Royal Society was awarded on a biennial basis from 1890 onwards, as a way of recognising individual achievement in the scientific fields to which Darwin himself had contributed. The first scientist to be…
Matches: 1 hits
- … University Library, Add. MS 7651/8/1/No. 9106, p. 48, no. 601: ‘Royal Society: Darwin 1890 Medallist …
Darwin’s reading notebooks
Summary
In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…
Matches: 1 hits
- … and philosophical study . London. [Abstract in DAR 71: 60–1.] *128: 182; 128: 4 Kolff, …
