To Katharine Murray Lyell 26 January [1856]
Summary
Suggests that J. E. Gray and/or G. R. Waterhouse might be willing to set her butterfly collection. Recommends that her children should collect their own butterflies.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Katharine Murray Horner; Katharine Murray Lyell |
| Date: | 26 Jan [1856] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.124) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1827 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … Francis, Leonard, and Horace Darwin , aged 7, 5, and 4, respectively, reported their collecting activities in the Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer (see LL 2: 140). The accessions list of the British Museum (Natural History) does not record any donation by Katharine Murray Lyell ( British Museum (Natural History) 1904–6 , vol. 2). George Robert Waterhouse was preparing a monograph on the Coleoptera ( Waterhouse 1858 ). Leonard Lyell , aged 5. Katharine Murray Lyell , Mary Lyell’s sister, was the wife …
Document type
| letter | (1) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Addressee
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Horner, K. M. | (1) |
| Lyell, K. M. | (1) |
