To Richard Kippist 8 February 1865
To the Librarian Linnean Soc. Burlington House
Please give Bearer all Parts of Transactions due to me.—1
Ch. Darwin
Down Feb. 8th 1865—
Footnotes
As a fellow of the Linnean Society CD was entitled to receive, free of charge, all volumes, or parts of volumes, of the society’s Transactions and Journal (List of the Linnean Society of London, 1865). CD’s copies of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, for the 1860s and some other years, are in the Darwin Library–CUL. The bearer may have been George Snow, who ran a carrier service between London and Down every Thursday (Post Office directory of the six home counties 1866). In 1865, 8 February fell on a Wednesday.
Bibliography
List of the Linnean Society of London. London: [Linnean Society of London]. 1805–1939.
Post Office directory of the six home counties: Post Office directory of the six home counties, viz., Essex, Herts, Kent, Middlesex, Surrey and Sussex. London: W. Kelly & Co. 1845–78.
Summary
Requests all parts of Transactions due him.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4767
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Kippist
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4767,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4767.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13
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