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To Albert Günther   28 January [1877]

Summary

Has signed certificates.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  28 Jan [1877]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/113)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10372

To Albert Günther   25 February [1877]

Summary

His specimen catalogue has not been returned from Cambridge museum. If not lost, will answer query.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  25 Feb [1877]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/114)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10867

To Albert Günther   3 March 1877

Summary

Discusses spider specimens.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  3 Mar 1877
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10875

To Albert Günther   4 May [1877]

Summary

Pigeons’ skins dispatched today.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  4 May [1877]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/11/115a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10951

To Albert Günther   7 May 1877

Summary

Sends MS about pigeons.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  7 May 1877
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/15/112)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-10952

To Albert Günther   1 January 1879

Summary

Thanks AG for his kind note and returns his good wishes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  1 Jan 1879
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-11817

To Albert Günther   22 December [1880]

Summary

Anxious that AG should consider a memorial [for A. R. Wallace]. Makes arrangements to avoid delay.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  22 Dec [1880]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12932

To Albert Günther   27 December 1880

Summary

Sends memorial [for A. R. Wallace] for AG to sign. Asks whether AG will forward it to Owen; CD cannot send it as he has not spoken to him for 20 years.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  27 Dec 1880
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12944

From Albert Günther   [28 December 1880]

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Summary

Has signed and returned memorial [for Wallace]; does not know where to find Owen.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [28 Dec 1880]
Classmark:  DAR 165: 257
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-12948

To Albert Günther   19 December 1881

Summary

Asks how he can obtain a Museum post for his late brother’s butler, F. W. Surman.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  19 Dec 1881
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13569

From Albert Günther   21 December 1881

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Summary

Explains how to go about getting an attendantship at the British Museum.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  21 Dec 1881
Classmark:  DAR 165: 258
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13574

To Albert Günther   22 December [1881]

Summary

Discusses position [at British Museum]. "My case is hopeless as my man [F. W. Surman] is 31 years old."

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  22 Dec [1881]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/200/21/105)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13575

To Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther   6 March [1860]

Summary

Reports on the snakes he collected in the Galapagos.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  6 Mar [1860]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2725

To Albert Charles Lewis Gotthilf Günther   7 December [1867]

Summary

Sends his photograph.

Asks for any information of well-marked sexual differences in snakes, batrachians, or lizards. The rattlesnakes at the Zoological Garden differ considerably in colour.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  7 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5710

From A. C. L. G. Günther   19 December 1867

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Summary

Sexual differences in reptiles, especially Indian [see A. Günther, The reptiles of British India (1864)].

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  19 Dec 1867
Classmark:  DAR 82: B72–4
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5733

From A. C. L. G. Günther   [late December 1867 or early January 1868]

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The Cyprinodontidae family of fishes exhibits sexual differences as remarkable as any in reptiles or birds [Descent 2: 7, 9–10].

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [late Dec 1867 or early Jan 1868]
Classmark:  DAR 82: B75
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5734

To A. C. L. G. Günther   21 December [1867]

Summary

Thanks AG for information.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  21 Dec [1867]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.339)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-5735

To Albert Günther   23 March [1868]

Summary

Asks AG for details of variation in patterning of the banded snake.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Date:  23 Mar [1868]
Classmark:  Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6043

From Albert Günther   13 May 1868

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Sends proofs of his fish paper.

Will observe modification of colour in fish.

Is studying the development of the axolotl.

Encloses notes in reply to CD’s queries on fishes.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  13 May 1868
Classmark:  DAR 165: 242a, DAR 82: B23
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6170

From Albert Günther   [c. 23 March 1868?]

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Note on sexual differences in Monacanthus.

Author:  Albrecht Carl Ludwig Gotthilf (Albert) Günther
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [c. 23 Mar 1868?]
Classmark:  DAR 82.2: 25
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-6531
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