To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
From J. S. Henslow 6 February 1832
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Feb 1832 |
Classmark: | DAR 204: 110 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-157 |
To John Phillips 11 November [1859]
Summary
Sends Origin to JP. Says it is as yet only an abstract. Fears JP will "fulminate anathemas" against it. Asks him to read it all straight through, otherwise it will be unintelligible.
Is not so foolish as to expect to convert anyone. CD remembers how many long years his own conversion took. Hooker "has completely given up species as immutable creatures".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Phillips |
Date: | 11 Nov [1859] |
Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History Archive Collections (John Phillips collection)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2521 |
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- … Phillips was president of the Geological Society in 1859 and had been instrumental earlier in the year in the society’s award of the Wollaston Medal to CD (see letters to John Phillips , 21 January [1859] and 8 February [1859] ). He was the senior geologist at Oxford University following William Buckland’ …
Document type
letter | (3) |
Author
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Clift, William | (1) |
Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Roget, P. M. | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Stanley, Edward | (1) |
Stokes, Charles | (1) |
Taylor, John | (1) |
Whewell, William | (1) |
Addressee
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Phillips, John | (1) |
Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Phillips, John | (2) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |