From J. S. Henslow to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Thomas Spring Rice 21 June 1837
Summary
Encloses CD’s letter and documents [see 360a and 361a] with request that they be reviewed by the Chancellor personally.
He would also like to discuss Cambridge politics if an interview can be arranged.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
Date: | 21 June 1837 |
Classmark: | The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-361B |
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 |
letter | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Babbage, Charles | (1) |
Bostock, John | (1) |
Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
Buckland, William | (1) |
Spring Rice, Thomas | |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
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) |
Henslow, J. S. | (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) |