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To the Secretary, Royal Geographical Society   20 May [1850]

Summary

Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Geographical Society
Date:  20 May [1850]
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1329

To the Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society   [19 March 1839]

Summary

Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Geographical Society
Date:  [19 Mar 1839]
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-499

To the Royal Geographical Society    February 1843

Summary

George Suttor’s paper not worthy of publication in the Journal of the society. It contains no new facts worth insertion.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Geographical Society
Date:  Feb 1843
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-662A

To The Royal Geographical Society   [30 July 1844 – 1 October 1846]

Summary

Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Royal Geographical Society
Date:  [30 July 1844 – 1 Oct 1846]
Classmark:  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/5)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-767

To Henry Norton Shaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society   17 May [1852]

Summary

Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  17 May [1852]
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1482

To J. Shillinglaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society   [1839 – May 1842]

Summary

Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  [1839 – May 1842]
Classmark:  Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-477

To John Washington   14 October [1839]

Summary

Returns proof-sheets of an article he has reviewed for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. He will find it useful when he comes to describe the Cordilleras of Chile.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  14 Oct [1839]
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-536

To John Washington   [14 October 1839]

Summary

Returns proofs of J. O. French’s article ["Account of the province of La Rioja: S. America", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 381–406].

Gratified by Humboldt’s praise of Journal of researches [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 502].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  [14 Oct 1839]
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-537

To John Washington   1 November [1839]

Summary

CD thinks report of a rock imbedded in an iceberg is remarkable; wants to write a note for the [Journal] about it. Asks for location of the sighting and a chart of the Antarctic Sea. [See "Rock seen on an iceberg", Collected papers 1: 137–9.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  1 Nov [1839]
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-544

To John Washington, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society   16 May 1840

Summary

Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  16 May 1840
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-568

To Julian Jackson   23 May [1844]

Summary

Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society
Date:  23 May [1844]
Classmark:  Royal Geographical Society
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-751
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