To Robert Patterson 17 April [1847]
Summary
Admires RP’s volume [Introduction to zoology, pt 1 (1846)]; he has condensed a great deal of accurate information. CD hopes some good naturalists will spring up as a result.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
Date: | 17 Apr [1847] |
Classmark: | Praeger 1935, p. 712 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1081 |
To Robert Patterson 6 April [1854]
Summary
He has returned William Thompson’s MSS and, he believes, all his specimens of Cirripedia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
Date: | 6 Apr [1854] |
Classmark: | Praeger 1935, p. 713 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1565 |
To Robert Patterson 21 August [1854]
Summary
Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
Date: | 21 Aug [1854] |
Classmark: | Praeger 1935, p. 713 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1579 |
To Robert Patterson 10 March [1857]
Summary
Asks RP’s help in procuring a specimen of a real Irish rabbit, L. veomicule [Lepus vermicula]?.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
Date: | 10 Mar [1857] |
Classmark: | W. E. Praeger 1935, p. 714 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2062 |
To Robert Patterson 12 November [1857]
Summary
The [Irish] rabbits arrived safely. "They shall be skeletonized." CD now has rabbits from Shetland, Madeira and Ireland; hopes to receive one from Jamaica.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
Date: | 12 Nov [1857] |
Classmark: | W. E. Praeger 1935, p. 714 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2168 |
To Robert Patterson 21 October [1860]
Summary
Thanks RP for communicating the "Rat v. Rabbit case".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Patterson |
Date: | 21 Oct [1860] |
Classmark: | Praeger 1935, p. 715 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2958 |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Patterson, Robert | (6) |