To the Secretary, Royal Society 28 September 1858
Summary
Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s latest part of memoir on Foraminifera be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 149 (1859): 1–41].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 28 Sept 1858 |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2330 |
To the Secretary, Royal Society 5 March 1858
Summary
C. P. Smyth’s observations on geology and natural history of Tenerife are not precise enough to warrant publication in Philosophical Transactions. Suggests CPS draw up an abstract, for the Proceedings, of specific points actually observed, rather than conclusions arrived at on insufficient grounds.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 5 Mar 1858 |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 255) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2234 |
To [William Sharpey] [1853–72?]
Summary
If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | [1853–72?] |
| Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13892 |
To the secretary of the Royal Society of London 27 November 1875
Summary
Communicates a paper by Lawson Tait to the Royal Society [not published by Royal Society, see 10452].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 27 Nov 1875 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.480) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10279 |
To the Secretary, Royal Society 18 November [1855]
Summary
Reluctantly agrees to write a paper (the citation of award of the Royal Medal to J. O. Westwood [Abstracts and papers of RSL 1855]), but feels unfitted for the job.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 18 Nov [1855] |
| Classmark: | DAR 249: 112 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1782A |
To the Secretary, Royal Society 22 March 1858
Summary
Recommends Leonard Horner’s "Account of some recent researches near Cairo" for publication in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 148 (1858): 53–9]. Believes all the details and sections should be published in full because of importance of investigations leading to the conclusion that man has existed in Egypt for over 13000 years.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 22 Mar 1858 |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 147) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2244 |
To Daniel Mackintosh 16 October 1879
Summary
DM may show CD’s letter [to the Royal Society].
Pleased that his old paper should have stimulated DM to such excellent work.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Mackintosh |
| Date: | 16 Oct 1879 |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-12259 |
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To the Secretary, Royal Society 18 July 1856
Summary
Recommends W. B. Carpenter’s paper on Foraminifera, pt 2, be published in Philosophical Transactions [R. Soc. Lond. 146 (1856): 547–69].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 18 July 1856 |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR3: 40) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1930 |
To William Sharpey, Secretary, Royal Society 24 January [1857]
Summary
Feels unqualified to offer advice on research by the expedition; he has never attended to natural history of the region. Suggests collecting Carboniferous plants and studying the geographical extension of sea-borne erratic boulders.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Sharpey |
| Date: | 24 Jan [1857] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (MC17: 336) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2206 |
From J. D. Hooker 2 December 1875
Summary
E. R. Lankester is in danger of being black-balled for admission to the Linnean Society; Thiselton-Dyer is in the midst of the fight.
| Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 2 Dec 1875 |
| Classmark: | DAR 104: 45–8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10286 |
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