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From F. B. White   11 June 1879

Memorandum. | From | F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., | Editor of the Scottish Naturalist, A Magazine of Scottish Natural History | Annat Lodge, Perth,

June 11 1879

Dear Sir

I do not know whether you ever give “testimonials” but, being at present a candidate for the chair of Zoology in Owens College, & having in remembrance yr very kind letter regarding my paper on St Helena, I venture to ask you for one.1

Pray pardon me for troubling you & | Believe me to be | Yrs very truly | F Buchanan White.

P.S. I take this opportunity of sending you a copy of a paper of which I have lately received copies.2

1
Owens College, Manchester, founded in 1851, became a science-based university on the German model during the 1860s. In 1877, the college council decided to divide the chair in natural history and create separate departments of zoology and botany; the first professor of zoology, appointed in 1879, was Arthur Milnes Marshall (ODNB). CD had praised White’s paper ‘Contributions to a knowledge of the hemipterous fauna of St. Helena, and speculations on its origin’ (F. B. White 1878; see Correspondence vol. 26, letter to F. B. White, 23 September [1878]).
2
White sent a copy of the July 1879 issue of Scottish Naturalist; it contained the first part of his article ‘The mountain Lepidoptera of Britain: their distribution and its causes’ (F. B. White 1879). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-12103,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-12103