To A. Y. Spearman 20 May 1840

12 Upper Gower St.

May 20^th. 1840

Sir

I have the honour to transmit, as on former occasions, for the approval of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury the account of M^rss. Smith and Elder for the 4^th No of Part 1, of the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle, which is now published.—¹ I beg leave to state, that as before I have examined the account, and superintended the expences of each part.

Preserved with this letter is an account from Smith, Elder & Co., dated April 1840, detailing the various costs of Fossil Mammalia, No. 4. The total expense was £47 12s. 8d.

Please cite as “DCP-LETT-568A,” in Ɛpsilon: The Charles Darwin Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/dcp-data/letters/DCP-LETT-568A

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The fourth number of part one of the Zoology has now been published. The Smith, Elder & Co. account is submitted.

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Record number: DCP-LETT-568A
From: Charles Robert Darwin
To: Alexander Young Spearman, 1st baronet
Date: 20 May 1840
Sent from: London, Upper Gower St, 12
Source of text: The National Archives (TNA) (T1/4524 paper 25824)
Physical description: 1p

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To A. Y. Spearman 20 May 1840

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