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Resignation from Office

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Copy of a letter to Sir William Harcourt from Edwin Ray Lankester, 18 April 1882

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/13
Scope and Contents

Lankester announces his resignation from the Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, citing peculiar conditions of candidature and competition, and previously undisclosed teaching duties as reasons for not accepting the post.

Dates: 18 April 1882

Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Edwin Ray Lankester, 18 April 1882

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Identifier: Coll-14/9/1/12
Scope and Contents

Lankester announces his resignation from the Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, and states that he will be staying at University College London. He gives the main reasons for his resignation as 'ten months are required in Edinburgh instead of three as I supposed, and that there are no laboratories nor a museum, nor likely to be for many years to come' and that the Executive Commission 'may reduce the value of the post to any extent.'

Dates: 18 April 1882