To R. I. Murchison 24 [June 1858]
Summary
Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.
One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet |
| Date: | 24 [June 1858] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2292 |
To J. D. Hooker 24–5 November [1858]
Summary
Praises JDH’s Australian introduction.
Disputes JDH’s emphasis on SE. and SW. Australian flora.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 24–5 Nov [1858] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 255 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2371 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 October [1858]
Summary
CD’s reasons for not signing the memorial requesting removal of natural history exhibits from British Museum. Less sure about moving botanical specimens to Kew. His notion of museum organisation.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Date: | 23 Oct [1858] |
| Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 243) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2347 |
To the Chancellor of the Exchequer 18 November 1858
Summary
CD and eight zoologists and botanists publish a memorial on "the arrangements by which National Collections in Natural History can be best adapted to the advancement of science and its general diffusion among the Public".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Chancellor of the Exchequer |
| Date: | 18 Nov 1858 |
| Classmark: | Parliamentary Accounts and Papers, Finance; banking; revenue, &c., Session 3 December 1857–2 August 1858, 33: 499–503; Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, 27 November 1858, p. 861 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2365 |
Document type
| letter | (4) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Addressee
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
