To the Palaeontographical Society1 [before 22 February 1850]
5. Read a letter from Mr Chas Darwin offering to prepare for the Society a Monograph of the British Fossil Cirripedia2
Footnotes
The letter has not been found. The text given has been taken from the minutes of a meeting of the Palaeontographical Society held on 22 February 1850. The minutes record that Henry Thomas De la Beche, Philip de Malpas Grey-Egerton, Charles Lyell, Daniel Sharpe, James Carrick-Moore, John Morris, John Wickham Flower, and James Scott Bowerbank were present.
The minutes continue with a resolution ‘that the offer of Mr Darwin be accepted’, followed by a resolution ‘that Sir Chas Lyell and Prof. Forbes be appointed a committee of Superintendance for Mr Darwins Monograph’.
Summary
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1304
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Palaeontographical Society
- Sent from
- unstated
- Source of text
- British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes)
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1304,” accessed on 19 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1304.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
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