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To the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Thomas Spring Rice 3 August 1837
Summary
With the encouragement of several scientific gentlemen and supported by the opinions of the Presidents of the three Learned Societies, CD ventures to request a grant of £1000 from Government to cover the cost of 150 engravings to illustrate results of his Beagle collections.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | 3 Aug 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-370A |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
Document type
| letter | (2) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Clift, William | (1) |
| Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Roget, P. M. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Stanley, Edward | (1) |
| Stokes, Charles | (1) |
| Taylor, John | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
