Thomas Whitelegge - Letters from Charles Darwin, 1878

MLMSS 5833

fonds

1878

65605

Microfilm : CY 3168, frames 18-28 (MLMSS 5833)

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript)

Charles Darwin the, the discoverer of natural selection, was born at Shrewsbury in England. He studied medicine at Edinburgh University and then completed a B.A. in 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: The Origin of species by means of natural selection (1859).

28 April- 16 July 1878; Three signed autograph letters from Charles Darwin to Thomas Whitelegge concernining Whitelegge's discovery of gynodioecious flowers on single plants in two species of buttercups (Ranunculus). (Call No.: ML MSS 5833)

Previously located at ML Ad 1/1-3.