Gerard Krefft letters from Charles Darwin, 1872-1876

MLMSS 5828

fonds

July 1872-December 1876, undated

65361

Microfilm : CY 3168, frames 1-17

0.02 Meters of textual material (1 folder)

Charles Darwin, the discoverer of natural selection, was born at Shrewsbury in England. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and then completed a B.A. zoology and geology at Cambridge. Between 1831 and 1836 he was naturalist on board H.M.S. Beagle during a scientific survey of South American waters. He also visited Australia and New Zealand. It was during this voyage that he gained the knowledge of flora, fauna and geology which laid the basis of his great work: On the origin of species by means of natural selection (1859).
Johann Ludwig Gerhard (Gerard) Krefft (1830-1881) became curator of the Australian Museum in Sydney in 1864. He corresponded widely with other scientists and was one of the few in Australia to accept Darwin's theory of evolution.

Five signed autograph letters from Charles Darwin to Johann Krefft concerning scientific method, zoology and Krefft's financial difficulties.

Previously located at ML Ad 1/4.