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To A. G. Butler 20 February [1879]
Summary
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Date: | 20 Feb [1879] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11889 |
From A. G. Butler 19 February 1879
Summary
Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 19 Feb 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 389 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11888 |
From A. G. Butler 31 March 1879
Summary
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 31 Mar 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 390 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11963 |
From A. G. Butler 13 December 1879
Summary
Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.
| Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 13 Dec 1879 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 391 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12355 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Butler, A. G. | (3) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Butler, A. G. | (1) |
