From A. B. Mitford 17 January 1882
12, Whitehall Place. S.W.
17th. January 1882.
Sir,
Sir Joseph Hooker having reported to this office that you have offered to provide funds for the preparation in the Royal Gardens, Kew, of a new edition of Steudel’s Nomenclator, I am directed by the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works, &c, to convey to you the thanks of this Department for your liberality and public spirit in the matter, and to express to you his appreciation of the compliment paid to the Kew Establishment in—entrusting it with the supervision of the work.1
I am, | Sir. | Your obedient Servant | A. B. Mitford. | Secretary.
Charles Darwin Esqre. F.R.S.
c/o Sir Joseph Hooker K.C.S.I | Royal Gardens | Kew.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Steudel, Ernst Gottlieb. 1841. Nomenclator botanicus: seu: synonymia plantarum universalis, enumerans ordine alphabetico nomina atque synonyma, tum generica tum specifica, et a Linnaeo et a recentioribus de re botanica scriptoribus plantis phanerogamis imposita. 2d edition. 2 parts. Stuttgart and Tübingen: J. G. Cotta.
Summary
The Secretary to the First Commissioner of Her Majesty’s Works thanks CD for providing the funds for a new edition of Steudel’s Nomenclator [Index Kewensis].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13620
- From
- Algernon Bertram Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale/Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- H.M. Office of Works
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 180
- Physical description
- LS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13620,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13620.xml
