To the syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden 4 December 1878
Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | (Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.)
December 4th 1878
I have read Mr. R. Irwin Lynch’s papers in the Linnean Journal,1 & he has communicated to me other facts; & these together have led me to believe that he possesses acute powers of observation, & further that he is able to describe clearly what he has seen. I may be allowed to add that I have always found Mr. Lynch very obliging in giving me any required assistance.—2
Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Lynch, Richard Irwin. 1877. Note on the blimbing (Averrhoa bilimbi, Linn.). [Read 21 June 1877.] Journal of the Linnean Society (Botany) 16: 231–2.
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
Summary
Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-11770
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
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