To John Russell [10 July 1848]
Summary
Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips; Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet; Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer |
| Addressee: | John Russell, 1st Earl Russell |
| Date: | [10 July 1848] |
| Classmark: | Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1188F |
To S. P. Woodward 10 July 1848
Summary
Is pleased to support SPW’s application for a position in the fossil department at the British Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 10 July 1848 |
| Classmark: | British Museum (Central Archive Staff Applications and Testimonials: S. P. Woodward CE33/710/45) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189A |
| letter | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
| Russell, John | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Calvert, Harry | (1) |
| Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
| Farrer, T. H. | (1) |
George Robert Waterhouse
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George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a solicitor’s clerk and an amateur lepidopterist. George was educated from 1821-24 at Koekelberg near Brussels. On his return he worked for a time as an apprentice to…
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- … George Waterhouse was born on 6 March 1810 in Somers Town, North London. His father was a …
2.13 Edgar Boehm, statue in the NHM
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< Back to Introduction Edgar Boehm’s marble statue of Darwin in the Natural History Museum was commissioned by the committee of the Darwin Memorial Fund. This body had been set up by Darwin’s friends after his death in 1882, with the aim of providing…
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5935_4582
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From J. D. Hooker 26[–7] February 1868KewFeby 26th/68Dear Darwin I have been bursting with impatience to hear what you would say of the Athenæum Review & who wrote it— I could not conceive who…
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- … See letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 February [1868] and nn. 7–10. f5 Thomas Henry Huxley. …
