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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
14 May 1866
Source of text:
Gunther 1975, p. 238 (facsimile of printed copy of memorial)
Summary:

Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from the fellows of the Royal, Linnean, Geological, and Zoological Societies of London, stating the importance of separating the administration of the national natural history collections of the British Museum from that of the library and art collections, and placing it in the hands of one officer, immediately responsible to one of the Queen’s ministers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
20 June 1872
Source of text:
Parliamentary Papers 1872 (335) XLVII.527, pp. 41–9.
Summary:

Encloses a memorial concerning the Botanical Gardens at Kew signed by ‘some of our most eminent scientific men’ (including CD).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[before 16 Jan 1873]
Source of text:
Fourth report of the Royal Commission on Scientific Instruction and the Advancement of Science 1874 [C.884] XXII.1 (pp. 31–2)
Summary:

Encourages the government to keep the herbarium and library of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 Oct 1877
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 120–1)
Summary:

Has read WEG’s article ["The colour sense", Nineteenth Century 2 (1877): 366–88] on H. Magnus’ view. Informs him of a criticism of this view and reply by Magnus in Kosmos. Offers to send the article.

CD has contributed some facts on the difficulty children have in distinguishing colours (or naming them correctly).

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
25 Oct [1877]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44455: 210)
Summary:

Sends WEG the two articles [see 11163] with references.

CD thinks savages do not have names for shades of colours, which is curious since those he has known have names for every slight promontory or hill.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
4 Aug [1879]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44471 ff. 5–6); International Autograph Auctions (dealers), (23 February 2013)
Summary:

Thanks WEG for his essay showing how Homer distinguished between different kinds of movement.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
June 1880
Source of text:
Roundell 1880 , pp. 10–11
Summary:

Supporting the abolition of clerical headships and fellowships at Oxford and Cambridge.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
[4 Jan 1881]
Source of text:
DAR 202: 58
Summary:

Covering letter to enclose a memorial [petitioning for a civil list pension for Wallace].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
7 Jan 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44468: 11)
Summary:

CD expresses his great pleasure at WEG’s letter informing him that Wallace has been granted a pension.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Ewart Gladstone
Date:
2 May 1881
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 44469: 218)
Summary:

CD declines an invitation to be a trustee [of British Museum] because his strength is insufficient to permit regular attendance at meetings.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project