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To H. B. Tristram   26 February [1874]

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Asks HBT whether he received the certificate nominating Robert Swinhoe for the Royal Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Baker Tristram
Date:  26 Feb [1874]
Classmark:  Wheldon & Wesley (dealers) (1984)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9317A

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  • … See letter to H.  B.  Tristram, 16 February 1874 . Robert Swinhoe had asked CD to propose …

To the Royal Society of London   2 March [1874]

Summary

A certificate for admission [of Robert Swinhoe] to Royal Society with many signatures has been lost by the Post Office. Asks for another so he can get the signatures anew.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Society of London
Date:  2 Mar [1874]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9329

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  • 1874 ); this involved CD’s obtaining six signatures on a certificate for admission ( Record of the Royal Society of London , p.  301; see also letter to H.  B.  Tristram, …

To Albert Günther   [c. 2 March 1874]

Summary

Encloses a circular [9384?] to explain the predicament he is in. Asks whether AG can get anyone at the British Museum, other than Owen, to join J. E. Gray in signing.

Believes the account of the Mallotus in American Naturalist [5 (1871): 119] is trustworthy.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  [c. 2 Mar 1874]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library (39)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-9383

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  • … and nn.  2 and 3, and letter to H.  B.  Tristram, 3 March [1874] and n.  1). Richard Owen …