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DCP-LETT-421F

From:
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
To:
Thomas Spring Rice
Date:
[before 7 July 1838]
Source of text:
House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307
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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1241A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
[before 30 May 1849]
Source of text:
Murchison 1849, p. 67 n.
Summary:

CD believes that floating ice and glaciers produce indistinguishable effects in actions such as scoring or polishing rocks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13831

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June [1855]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Accepts invitation for the 20th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2286

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
19 June [1858]
Source of text:
ML 1: 109–10
Summary:

There is much weight in what RIM says about not breaking up the natural history collection of the British Museum. The botanical collection might be moved to Kew, but CD thinks "it would be the greatest evil which could possibly happen to natural science in this country if the other collections were ever to be removed from the British Museum and Library".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
24 [June 1858]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection (MS.5220/149)
Summary:

Extremely sorry for trouble he has given about his signature.

One child dangerously ill with diphtheria, another with much fever.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2779

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
1 May [1860]
Source of text:
The British Library (Surrogate RP 7400)
Summary:

Much obliged for note from Alexander von Keyserling. Geologist going one inch with CD more important than naturalist going two or three.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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