From Charles Cardale Babington 28 March 1865
Cambridge
28. March. 1865
Dear Darwin
I think that you will be glad to learn that the University has at last provided a proper room for a small Zoological Museum1 and that the Philosophical Society contemplates offering its museum to the University to form part of that to be formed there.2 As the Philosl. Museum contains a large collection of Fish given by you I think it well to inform you of this.3 The fish will be better taken care of and more useful there than where they now are.
Yours truly | Charles C. Babington—
I have got a good place for the Univy Herb. and am beginning to get it put to rights. It seems to be very rich and valuable.4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Hall, Alfred Rupert. 1969. The Cambridge Philosophical Society: a history, 1819–1969. Cambridge: Cambridge Philosophical Society.
Porter, Duncan M. 1985. The Beagle collector and his collections. In The Darwinian heritage, edited by David Kohn. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press in association with Nova Pacifica (Wellington, NZ).
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Zoology: The zoology of the voyage of HMS Beagle, under the command of Captain FitzRoy RN, during the years 1832 to 1836. Edited and superintended by Charles Darwin. 5 pts. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1838–43.
Summary
University has at last provided room for a small zoological museum. The Philosophical Society might donate its collections to it, including CD’s fishes.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-4799
- From
- Charles Cardale Babington
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Cambridge
- Source of text
- DAR 160: 9
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 4799,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4799.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13