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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Shillinglaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[1839 – May 1842]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/4)
Summary:

Asks for volumes of F. W. Beechey’s work [Narrative of a voyage to the Pacific and Bering Strait (1831)] and Nautical magazine and an order on [John] Arrowsmith for atlas of Dumont d’Urville’s Voyage in the "Astrolabe".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[19 Mar 1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Formal request for F. Lutké’s charts of the Caroline Islands and any charts by Beechey of the Lagoon Islands [Ellice Islands] that the Society might possess.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
14 Oct [1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Returns proof-sheets of an article he has reviewed for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society. He will find it useful when he comes to describe the Cordilleras of Chile.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[14 Oct 1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Returns proofs of J. O. French’s article ["Account of the province of La Rioja: S. America", J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 381–406].

Gratified by Humboldt’s praise of Journal of researches [J. R. Geogr. Soc. 9 (1839): 502].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
1 Nov [1839]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

CD thinks report of a rock imbedded in an iceberg is remarkable; wants to write a note for the [Journal] about it. Asks for location of the sighting and a chart of the Antarctic Sea. [See "Rock seen on an iceberg", Collected papers 1: 137–9.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Washington; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
16 May 1840
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Has much pleasure "in accepting the honour of being proposed as a member of the Council of the Geographical Society".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
Feb 1843
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

George Suttor’s paper not worthy of publication in the Journal of the society. It contains no new facts worth insertion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Julian Jackson; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
23 May [1844]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Discusses a paper on the Rio Negro.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
[30 July 1844 – 1 Oct 1846]
Source of text:
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (GEN/D/DARWIN (C)/5)
Summary:

Urgently needs a Spanish map of the Cordilleras of central Chile near St Jago [Santiago].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
17 May [1852]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project