RECORD: Darwin, C. R. et al. [1880]. [Potential signatories for memorial for Civil List Pension for A. R. Wallace]. CUL-DAR91.99-100. (Cite as: John van Wyhe ed., 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)

REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 7.2022. RN1

NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR91 contains early notes on guns & shooting. Darwin's draft of recollections of Henslow, 1861. Notes on the moral sense. Wallace pension. 'a sketch of the principal events in my life' & list of Darwin's works. Loose notes found with CUL-DAR119 'Books to be read'.

Darwin's efforts to seek a Civil List Pension for A. R. Wallace are described in Ralph Colp 1992. "I will gladly do my best": How Charles Darwin obtained a Civil List Pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. Isis 83: 3-26 and the important letters and commentary in Correspondence vols. 27 and 28.

See related items also transcribed from the Darwin Archive at Cambridge University Library:

[Buckley, Arabella]. [1880]. [Biographical and bibliographical notes on A. R. Wallace] CUL-DAR91.91-94 Text

Darwin, C. R. [1880]. [Draft memorial for Civil List Pension for A. R. Wallace]. CUL-DAR91.95-98 Text

Darwin, C. R. [1880]. [Draft memorial for Civil List Pension for A. R. Wallace (fragment)]. CUL-DAR91.101. Text

Darwin, C. R., T. H. Huxley et al. [11-12.1880]. [Draft of] Petition to H M Government regarding a pension for Alfred Russel Wallace. CUL-DAR196.3.1. Text

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Allman Pres. Linn. Soc.

Flower Pres. Zoolog Soc

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Lubbock

Hooker

Self

Are the above these names enough? Can you suggest 2 or 3 other names?

Günther Curator Brit. Mus?

Perhaps Günther wd ask Owen.

do Newton Prof Zoology Cambridge

do Rolleston do Oxford

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Flower P

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owen & Günther

Lubbock

Sclater

Bates

Hooker

Huxley Self

Self

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Hooker Sclater Bates

Günther

Owen

T H Huxley

Darwin

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