To Charles Babbage [June – September 1837]
Summary
At Lyell’s request sends his copy of Whewell’s History of inductive sciences [1837] to CB.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Babbage |
| Date: | [June – Sept 1837] |
| Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 37190: 322) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-358 |
To William Buckland [15 June 1837]
Summary
Describes the two species of lizard [Amblyrhynchus] found in the Galapagos Archipelago.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Buckland |
| Date: | [15 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-359 |
To Francis Beaufort 16 June 1837
Summary
CD wants to request the assistance of Government to support the expense of the numerous engravings necessary for the publication of the results of the extensive collections in various departments of Natural History during the Beagle voyage. To what quarter should he apply?
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Francis Beaufort |
| Date: | 16 June 1837 |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-360A |
To William Whewell 18 June [1837]
Summary
Asks Whewell questions on earthquake wave action.
Thanks him for signature [to CD’s request to Chancellor of the Exchequer for funds for Zoology].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Whewell |
| Date: | 18 June [1837] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add c 88: 3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-361 |
To J. S. Henslow [20 June 1837]
Summary
Upon the advice of Captain Beaufort and with embarrassment to himself CD asks JSH whether he would be perfectly willing personally to take the letter requesting government assistance directly to Thomas Spring Rice [Chancellor of the Exchequer].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [20 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-361A |
To F. W. Hope [21 June 1837]
Summary
Discusses insect specimens he left with FWH. Asks if he may state on FWH’s authority that a third or a half of the specimens from Sydney and Hobart Town are undescribed – a striking fact, showing imperfect knowledge of the insects in the close neighbourhood of the two Australian capitals.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Frederick William Hope |
| Date: | [21 June 1837] |
| Classmark: | Oxford University Museum of Natural History (Hope Entomological collections) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-362 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Beaufort, Francis | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Hope, F. W. | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Beaufort, Francis | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
