To T. L. Brunton 17 December 1881
Summary
Feels he should decline nominal presidency of the proposed Science Defence Association.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Lauder Brunton, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 17 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13558 |
From H. N. Moseley 9 December 1881
Summary
He would support a foreigner for professorship of botany as CD suggests. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer is proposing W. C. Williamson, whom HNM considers a disaster.
| Author: | Henry Nottidge Moseley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 9 Dec 1881 |
| Classmark: | DAR 171: 263 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13535 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letter has not been found. The possible candidate mentioned by CD has not been identified. From 1868 to 1882 the post of Sherardian Professor of botany at Oxford University was held by Marmaduke Alexander Lawson . The appointment of his successor was to be made by a board consisting of the visitor of Magdalen College, Oxford (the bishop of Winchester, Edward Harold Browne ), and the president of Magdalen College ( Frederick Bulley ); the presidents of the Linnean Society and the Royal College of Physicians ( John Lubbock and William Jenner ); …
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
Addressee
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Brunton, T. L. | (1) |
| Moseley, H. N. | (1) |
