From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Feb 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 389
Summary:
Requests testimonial from CD for position of Assistant Keeper, Zoological Dept, British Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
Date:
20 Feb [1879]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 71)
Summary:
"I do not know whether the enclosed will be of any use to you.– I can say nothing of your fitness for the desired office, as I know nothing whatever of its duties.
I am sincerely sorry to hear of Mr F. Smith’s death."
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
31 Mar 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 390
Summary:
Has succeeded in obtaining Assistant Keeper’s post.
Believes it would be interesting and valuable to study the variation in organs such as scent-fans and "strigillating" [stridulating?] organs among related species of Lepidoptera.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Arthur Gardiner Butler
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
13 Dec 1879
Source of text:
DAR 160: 391
Summary:
Supplies facts on the colours of each sex in butterflies from the genera Ornithoptera and Heterochroa.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
