From:
Charles Wyville Thomson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
7 Oct 1870
Source of text:
DAR 178: 113
Summary:
Seeks CD’s support as a candidate for Edinburgh Chair in Natural History.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
Seeks CD’s support as a candidate for Edinburgh Chair in Natural History.
Is sorting material collected by the Challenger and wonders whether CD would care to examine the cirripedes.
Wants CD’s advice on who would undertake describing the Crustacea from the Challenger expedition [1872–6].
Seeks CD’s support for W. C. M’Intosh, candidate for Chair in Natural History at Aberdeen.