To the Linnean Society [after 12] September 18721
I hereby authorize Mr. Jas. West, Messenger to the Linnean Society, to receive on my behalf such parts of the Transactions of that Society as may now be due to me.2
Charles Darwin
Septr. 1872
With my Thanks—
Footnotes
The date is established by the relationship between this letter and the letter to the Linnean Society, 12 September 1872.
In 1872, James West succeeded his deceased uncle Thomas West as the Linnean Society’s porter, messenger, collector, and housekeeper (Gage and Stearn 1988, p. 67). CD’s copies of the Transactions of the Linnean Society of London are in the Darwin Archive–CUL.
Summary
Note authorising James West to collect Transactions on CD’s behalf.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-8501
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Linnean Society
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Linnean Society of London (Darwin Misc. Letters 8)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 8501,” accessed on 16 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-8501.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 20
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