From John Tyndall 8 June [1872]1
Royal Institution of Great Britain
8th June
My dear Darwin
The enclosed is now being copied & you will be asked to sign it in a day or two.2
We propose confining the signatures to 10 or 12 good names.3
I hope you will think that we have made out a good case. I have boiled down the correspondence so as to enable outsiders to form a quick judgement
Yours ever | John Tyndall
Chas Darwin Esq
Footnotes
The year is established by reference to the enclosed memorial; see n. 2, below.
A memorial in support of Joseph Dalton Hooker in his dispute with Acton Smee Ayrton over the running of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, was sent to the prime minister, William Ewart Gladstone, on 20 June 1872 and published on 11 July (enclosure to letter from John Lubbock to W. E. Gladstone, 20 June 1872; Nature 6 (1872): 211–16; see also letter from J. D. Hooker, 14 May 1872).
In addition to CD and Tyndall, the memorial was signed by George Bentham, George Burrows, George Busk, Henry Holland, Thomas Henry Huxley, Charles Lyell, James Paget, Henry Creswicke Rawlinson, and William Spottiswoode.
Summary
Sends CD a copy of the memorial supporting Hooker’s case against A. S. Ayrton’s interference in the administration of Kew Gardens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8375
- From
- John Tyndall
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Royal Institution
- Source of text
- DAR 106: C9
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8375,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8375.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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