To H. B. Tristram 16 February 1874
Summary
Asks HBT to sign certificate [for Royal Society] for Robert Swinhoe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
| Date: | 16 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 148 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9295 |
To Albert Günther 12 February 1874
Summary
Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | 12 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9287 |
From Albert Günther 14 February 1874
Summary
Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
| Author: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 14 Feb 1874 |
| Classmark: | DAR 97: C39 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9291 |
To H. B. Tristram 26 February [1874]
Summary
Asks HBT whether he received the certificate nominating Robert Swinhoe for the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
| Date: | 26 Feb [1874] |
| Classmark: | Wheldon & Wesley (dealers) (1984) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9317A |
To J. D. Hooker 9 April [1876]
Summary
McLachlan has as strong a claim to be F.R.S. as any entomologist, but Garrod’s work is of higher quality.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 9 Apr [1876] |
| Classmark: | DAR 95: 404–5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10445 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … 1874, when CD first proposed him; see this volume, Supplement, letter from Robert Swinhoe, …
- … 1874 by Henry Tibbats Stainton and supported by CD and others; see letter to H. T. Stainton, 11 February [1876] and n. 1 . This was Alfred Henry Garrod’s first nomination; see letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 and n. 2. See letter from J. D. Hooker, 8 April 1876 . Harriet Anne Hooker was Hooker’s daughter. Robert Swinhoe …
From T. H. Huxley 3 April 1876
Summary
A Dr Sarazin offers services as translator.
Will read CD’s letter about Robert Swinhoe to Royal Society Council and see what can be done for him.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 3 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 345 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10438 |
To the Royal Society of London 2 March [1874]
Summary
A certificate for admission [of Robert Swinhoe] to Royal Society with many signatures has been lost by the Post Office. Asks for another so he can get the signatures anew.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9329 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … the Royal Society (see letter from Robert Swinhoe, 9 February 1874 ); this involved CD’s …
- … 1874 were Thomas Henry Huxley and George Gabriel Stokes ; since CD usually addressed Huxley as ‘My dear Huxley’ this letter was probably intended for Stokes, whom CD addressed as ‘My dear Sir’ at least until the end of 1875. The year is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter from Robert Swinhoe, …
From J. D. Hooker 8 April 1876
Summary
Requests CD’s evaluation of the work of the entomologist Robert McLachlan, who is up for F.R.S. in competition with the physiologist A. H. Garrod.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Apr 1876 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 53–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10444 |
To H. B. Tristram 3 March [1874]
Summary
Thanks HBT for all the trouble he has taken for Robert Swinhoe and himself. Will try to get six signatures on a new certificate and deliver it to the Royal Society in time.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Baker Tristram |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1874] |
| Classmark: | New York Academy of Medicine (MS 14) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9330 |
To Albert Günther [c. 2 March 1874]
Summary
Encloses a circular [9384?] to explain the predicament he is in. Asks whether AG can get anyone at the British Museum, other than Owen, to join J. E. Gray in signing.
Believes the account of the Mallotus in American Naturalist [5 (1871): 119] is trustworthy.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther |
| Date: | [c. 2 Mar 1874] |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9383 |
| letter | (10) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Günther, Albert | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Tristram, H. B. | (3) |
| Günther, Albert | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Royal Society of London | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Günther, Albert | (3) |
| Tristram, H. B. | (3) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
