To the Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 20 May [1850]
Summary
Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 20 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1329 |
To the Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society [19 March 1839]
Summary
Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [19 Mar 1839] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-499 |
To the Royal Geographical Society February 1843
Summary
George Suttor’s paper not worthy of publication in the Journal of the society. It contains no new facts worth insertion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | Feb 1843 |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-662A |
To The Royal Geographical Society [30 July 1844 – 1 October 1846]
Summary
Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [30 July 1844 – 1 Oct 1846] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-767 |
To Henry Norton Shaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 17 May [1852]
Summary
Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 17 May [1852] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1482 |
To J. Shillinglaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society [1839 – May 1842]
Summary
Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [1839 – May 1842] |
Classmark: | Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-477 |
To John Washington 14 October [1839]
Summary
Returns proof-sheets of an article he has reviewed for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. He will find it useful when he comes to describe the Cordilleras of Chile.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Washington; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 14 Oct [1839] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-536 |
To John Washington [14 October 1839]
Summary
Returns proofs of J. O. French’s article ["Account of the province of La Rioja: S. America", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 381–406].
Gratified by Humboldt’s praise of Journal of researches [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 502].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Washington; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | [14 Oct 1839] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-537 |
To John Washington 1 November [1839]
Summary
CD thinks report of a rock imbedded in an iceberg is remarkable; wants to write a note for the [Journal] about it. Asks for location of the sighting and a chart of the Antarctic Sea. [See "Rock seen on an iceberg", Collected papers 1: 137–9.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Washington; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 1 Nov [1839] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-544 |
To John Washington, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 16 May 1840
Summary
Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Washington; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 16 May 1840 |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-568 |
To Julian Jackson 23 May [1844]
Summary
Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 23 May [1844] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-751 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Royal Geographical Society | |
Washington, John | (4) |
Jackson, Julian | (1) |
Shaw, H. N. | (1) |
Shillinglaw, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Royal Geographical Society | |
Washington, John | (4) |
Jackson, Julian | (1) |
Shaw, H. N. | (1) |
Shillinglaw, John | (1) |