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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Is the horned toad of Oregon a batrachian or a lizard?
Hopes AG will be promoted in the British Museum.
AG’s application for an appointment to Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
O. Salvin will not be applying for the same post as AG.
Believes many of the species and even genera of the fish family Labyrinthici are products of domestication.
Events at the British Museum.
Has been appointed Assistant Keeper at the British Museum.
Rejoices at AG’s appointment [as Assistant Keeper at the British Museum].
Many thanks for Expression. AG relates some relevant observations, the significance of which had previously escaped him.
Thanks AG for Popular Science Review containing his article [on Ceratodus, 11 (1872): 257–66]. CD had already read it with great interest.
CD did not bring any tortoises back from the Galapagos. There may be specimens at the Military Institution in Whitehall.
Sorry AG was unable to lunch with the Darwins during their stay in London.
Apologises for having given CD some unreliable information.
Thanks AG for information [unspecified]; so trifling an error will not alter his opinion that AG is "the most accurate of men".
Asks AG to sign an enclosure [see 9291].
Signs Robert Swinhoe’s certificate [for the Royal Society] with pleasure.
Has given in Descent 2: 12, an account from AG of the brushes on the sides of Monacanthus; has now learned of brush-like scales on the males of Mallotus. Asks whether the two genera are related.
Comments on several points in Descent,
doubts facts about Monacanthus brushes
and the two Cyprinidae males attending the female when spawning.
Encloses a circular [9384?] to explain the predicament he is in. Asks whether AG can get anyone at the British Museum, other than Owen, to join J. E. Gray in signing.
Believes the account of the Mallotus in American Naturalist [5 (1871): 119] is trustworthy.
Thanks for recent edition of CD’s Journal of researches.
Has been appointed to a Keepership at British Museum.
Rejoices at AG’s "honourable & important" position [Keeper of the Zoological Department, British Museum].
Invites AG to stay at Down.