From Emily Catherine Darwin 15 [January 1837]
Summary
Morning Herald had an account of CD’s 80 specimens of Mammalia and 450 birds at the Zoological Society.
John Gould has described new species in CD’s Galapagos birds.
Much interest in CD’s "Laurels".
Family news.
| Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 15 [Jan 1837] |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 142 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-341 |
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- … 12 January 1837, p. 5. CD had delivered his collection of birds and mammals to the Zoological Society on 4 January. The Society’s minutes acknowledged a letter from CD announcing ‘a present to the Society of his entire Collection …’ (quoted in Sulloway 1982b , pp. 356–7). The reference is to John Gould’s paper of 10 …
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