To A. Y. Spearman 20 September 1837
Summary
Encloses a statement [see 377a] from Smith, Elder & Co., which appears to provide the best plan for the expenditure of the grant. Asks that it be presented for their Lordships’ consideration. Also encloses a prospectus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-378A |
To Richard Owen [c. December 1837]
Summary
Sends remaining proofs of RO’s description of Toxodon [Fossil Mammalia] and a revise of first part. Will Owen want a second revise? CD has made "plenty of remarks".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [c. Dec 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-389 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … 26). It contains the first part of the description of Macrauchenia, which is not mentioned in the letter. Owen was still describing it on 28 December (see letter to Richard Owen, [28 December 1837] ). Owen described it as ‘ A gigantic extinct mammiferous animal, referrible to the Order Pachydermata, but with affinities to the Rodentia, Edentata, and Herbivorous Cetacea’ (see Fossil Mammalia, p. 16). CD wrote a ‘Geological introduction’ (pp. 3–12). …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Addressee
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Spearman, A. Y. | (1) |
