From H. N. Moseley 8 April 1882
Oxford.
April 8. 82.
My dear Mr Darwin
Many thanks for the cheque for eight guineas to be added to your former subscription of two guineas to the Rolleston Fund.1 I am extremely sorry that the former payment should have been overlooked I will at once communicate with Mr Chapman and see that all is put straight.2 He is away from Oxford I believe just now so perhaps you will not hear from him for a few days. He appears to have overlooked the payment which is curious since he is a man of leisure accustomed to act as treasurer here for all kinds of undertakings.
Many thanks for your kind wishes for my success here in my Professorship. I find I have got terribly rusty in all the details of my subject which I have not been working at myself and have not studied for so many years. and owing to my work in London having lasted till the end of January and all kinds of changes to be seen to here I have had scarcely any time to prepare my lectures for next term.3 I am therefore a little apprehensive about them but hope to get on better after a long vacation.
I have had sent to me from Australia a small Actinia which bores small conical chambers in the calcareous skeleton of the Bryozoon Cellepora and inhabits them. or rather I expect it clings to the Bryozoon when young and maintains its position whilst the skeleton develops around it. The result is that neat circular mouthed pores appear all over the Cellepora skeleton looking as if properly belonging to it and very puzzling without the explanation of their origin4
I am sorry indeed to hear you are unwell and hope you may soon regain your health.
Believe me | yours truly | H. N. Moseley
We are I hope going to allow students here to take a degree in anthropology. I am drawing up a syllabus of the subject with that view. General Pitt Rivers has offered his collection to the University.5
Footnotes
Bibliography
Gosden, Christopher, et al. 2009. Origins and survivals: Tylor, Balfour and the Pitt Rivers Museum and their role within anthropology in Oxford, 1883–1905. In A history of Oxford anthropology, edited by Peter Rivière. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Haswell, William A. 1882. Note on a curious instance of symbiosis. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 7: 608–10.
Summary
Thanks CD for contribution to Rolleston Fund
and for congratulations on his Professorship at Oxford.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13764
- From
- Henry Nottidge Moseley
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Oxford
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 265
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
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