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To J. Shillinglaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society   [1839 – May 1842]1

12. U. G. St.

Thursday

My dear Sir

Will you please give the Bearer the 1st. vol of Beechey2 & 2d of Naut. Mag.—3 Also an order on Arrowsmith4 for the Atlas of Dumont Durville’s voyage in the Astrolabe.—5 My servant did call at Arrowsmith, but brought only the Atlas of the voyage of Duperrey6 in the Coquille.— I want both.—

Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

1
The date range is based on CD’s residence in Gower Street and the publication of Coral reefs.
2
Beechey 1831. CD later acquired his own copy, which is preserved in Darwin Library–CUL. His notes and markings indicate that they were made while he was at work on Coral reefs.
3
The second volume of The Nautical Magazine (1833) contains much information that would have been of interest to CD: FitzRoy on the Abrolhos, notice of new charts of the east coast of South America, a paper on Falkland Island birds, etc.
5
Dumont d’Urville, ed. 1830–5.
6
Duperrey 1825–30.

Manuscript Alterations and Comments

point omitted after : 1.1 ‘&’

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-477,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-477