From:
Francis Galton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1872
Source of text:
DAR 105: A52
Summary:
Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Has forwarded CD’s letter to Crookes.
Requests letter recommending him for the Chair of General and Comparative Physiology at the Royal Veterinary College.
JDH asks Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff to speak in 'the House' [of Commons] on behalf of RBG Kew as its scientific function & JDH's role as Director are under threat from [Acton Smee] Ayrton. [Ayrton Controversy]. JDH has attended a committee meeting of the Cabinet at Lord Rippon's, attended by Rippon, Lord Halifax & Mr Cardwell. Ipecacuanha has been introduced to Sikkim, India: propagated from plant RBG Kew sent out in 1866. The Edinburgh plants are still at Calcutta [Kolkata].