To the Librarian of the Royal Geographical Society [19 March 1839]

M^r Darwin would be much obliged to the Librarian of the Geographical Society to send him Lutke’s¹ charts of the Caroline Isl^d, & likewise any charts of the Lagoon Isl^d. in the Pacific by Beechey, which the Society may possess.—² 12 Upper Gower St

Tuesday.—

Endorsement: ‘Received 20 March 1839’

Fedor Petrovich Lütke 1835–6.

See Coral reefs,‘Description of Plates’, Figs. 4, 7, 8.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-499,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-499

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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.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-499
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Royal Geographical Society
Date: [19 Mar 1839]
Sent from: London, Upper Gower St, 12
Source of text: Royal Geographical Society
Physical description: 1p

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