To John Russell   [10 July 1848]

Summary

Ask JR to advise the Queen to issue Her Royal Commission of Inquiry into the best methods of securing the improvement of the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge.

Letter details

Record number

DCP-LETT-1188F

From

Charles Robert Darwin; Nassau William Senior; John Stevens Henslow; Baden Powell; Bonamy Price; Thomas Jodrell Phillips/Thomas Jodrell Phillips-Jodrell; James Heywood; Edmund Walker Head, 8th baronet; Thomas James Agar Robartes; Philip le Breton; George Nugent Grenville, 2d Baron Nugent of Carlanstown; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Harry Calvert, 2d baronet/Harry Verney, 2d baronet; Peter John Locke King; Henry Galgacus Redhead Yorke; Joseph Kay; Edward France Percival; Edward Horsman; Erasmus Alvey Darwin; Hensleigh Wedgwood; Thomas Henry Farrer, 1st baronet and 1st Baron Farrer

To

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

Date

[10 July 1848]

Source of text

Cambridge Pamphlets, Folio Series, vol. 4: CUL Cam.a.500.5/124

Contributor

Darwin Correspondence Project[View Ɛpsilon collection]

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18-Supplement.

• Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.
• Verney, Harry
• Breton, Philip le
• Calvert, Harry
• Darwin, C. R.
• Darwin, E. A.
• Farrer, T. H.
• Grenville, G. N.
• Head, E. W.
• Henslow, J. S.
• Heywood, James
• Horsman, Edward
• Kay, Joseph
• King, P. J. L.
• Lyell, Charles
• Percival, E. F.
• Phillips, T. J.
• Powell, Baden
• Price, Bonamy
• Robartes, T. J. A.
• Russell, John
• Senior, N. W.
• Wedgwood, Hensleigh
• Yorke, H. G. R.