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To R. I. Lynch   4 December [1878]

Summary

Encloses letter of recommendation for RIL [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge?]. [See 11770.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Irwin Lynch
Date:  4 Dec [1878]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11769

To the syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden   4 December 1878

Summary

Letter recommending R. I. Lynch [for position as Curator, Botanic Garden, Cambridge].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Syndics of Cambridge Botanic Garden
Date:  4 Dec 1878
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11770

To John Tyndall   4 December [1878]

Summary

Has observed, perhaps erroneously, that certain plants were excited to movement by a prolonged high note on the bassoon. Would now like to try a siren and asks JT to bring one from the Royal Institution.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Tyndall
Date:  4 Dec [1878]
Classmark:  DAR 261.8: 27 (EH 88205965)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11771