To H. E. Strickland 31 May [1842]
Summary
Comments on HES’s Report ["Report of a committee … (on) nomenclature of zoology", Rep. BAAS 12 (1842): 105–21]. Suggests limit be put to changing names that are only partially erroneous to prevent those who detect the error from coining new names and attaching their own. HES’s rule for "authority for a species" is difficult, though on the whole best. Suggests stating it boldly to prevent appropriation of species names by "tacker[s] of two old names together".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
| Date: | 31 May [1842] |
| Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-630 |
To [William Baxter or W. W. Baxter?] 2 [October 1842 – April 1882]
Summary
Requests some carbonate of ammonia.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter |
| Date: | 2 [Oct 1842 - Mar 1882] |
| Classmark: | University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation (tipped into a copy of Insectivorous plants (QH 9.9 I59m)) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8132 |
From Hensleigh Wedgwood 25 September [1842]
Summary
Gives an account of his father’s illness.
| Author: | Hensleigh Wedgwood |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Sept [1842] |
| Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 258) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-644 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
Addressee
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Baxter, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Strickland, H. E. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Baxter, W. W. | (1) |
| Baxter, William | (1) |
| Strickland, H. E. | (1) |
| Wedgwood, Hensleigh | (1) |
