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From B. J. Sulivan   23 January 1872

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Louis Agassiz is going on a voyage to the Falklands, and BJS wonders whether it is worth while telling him of the Gallegos fossil bed so that he can investigate.

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  23 Jan 1872
Classmark:  DAR 177: 297
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8175

To B. J. Sulivan   24 January 1872

Summary

Suggests BJS write to Louis Agassiz about his [fossil mammal?] specimens but doubts that he will have time to do the work. Regrets they were ignored at the Royal College of Surgeons; thinks Owen neglected many things because he was overworked.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Date:  24 Jan 1872
Classmark:  Sulivan family (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8178

From B. J. Sulivan   20 June 1872

Summary

Privately advises CD against having anything to do with W. P. Snow, whose personality and past conduct on a mission vessel were very bad.

Reports on the successes of the missionaries on the Beagle Channel [Tierra del Fuego].

Author:  Bartholomew James Sulivan
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  20 June 1872
Classmark:  DAR 177: 298
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8393
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