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Darwin, Charles Robert, 1809-1882 (Naturalist)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1809 - 1882

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton

 Item — Box CLX-A-389
Identifier: Coll-2058
Content Description

Commonplace book of William H. Peyton, indexed, c. 80,000 words. Copious notebook kept some of the time when the writer was visiting France and Switzerland, with references to Darwin and Huxley, and an autobiography at p. 181. Dated 1893-1898.


Also includes enclosures (mainly newspaper clippings), gathered in one folder.

Dates: 1893-1898

Edinburgh Plinian Society

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-275
Scope and Contents

The records of the Edinburgh Plinian Society consist of a Minute Book for the period 1826-1828 and a Minute Book for the period 1828-1841. Appended to the relevant volume is a note of the references to the membership of Charles Darwin.

Dates: 1826-1841

Papers of Richard Bright and James Franck Bright

 Fonds — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Coll-344
Scope and Contents The papers are composed of an accumulation of manuscript letters to both Richard Bright and his son James Franck Bright and letters between other correspondents. The letters collected by the daughters of the Bright family include those from Roget, Lord Salisbury, Oscar Wilde, Sir Henry Rider Haggard, Elizabeth Fry, and Robert Browning and many other nineteenth century notables. The collection includes a manuscript fragment - or leaf - from the Origin of the...
Dates: 19th century - 20th century

Papers of Sir Charles Lyell

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-203
Scope and Contents
  1. 10 boxes of correspondence
  2. 2 boxes of miscellaneous papers and lecture notes
  3. 24 boxes of offprints of papers
  4. 294 notebooks
Dates: 1820-1874

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  • Type: Collection X

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Antiquities 1
Autobiographies 1
Auvergne (France) 1
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) 1
Commonplace-books 1