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Scope	1825-82: corresp and papers
Repository	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives
Record Reference	MS DAR link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 11458 Darwin
Other reference	see HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
Scope	1831-36: corresp and papers
Repository	Collection held privately: enquiries to Royal College of Surgeons
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 22849 Darwin
Scope	1837-82: letter book
Repository	Natural History Museum
Record Reference	L MSS DAR link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 39164
Scope	corresp and notebooks (copies) incl journal of a voyage in HMS Beagle
Repository	Natural History Museum
Record Reference	L MSS DAR B C D E F
Other reference	see Catalogue of MSS...Natural History Museum (1995)
Scope	1860-82: letters (36) to Henry Walter Bates
Repository	Case Western Reserve University Library
Scope	1837-77: letters (30) to Leonard Blomefield
Repository	Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
Record Reference	Jenyns Corresp link to scanned list
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 41808 Blomefield
Scope	corresp with Sir John Burdon-Sanderson (38 items)
Repository	University of British Columbia: Woodward Biomedical Library
Other reference	see Union list of MSS in Canadian repositories, suppl 1979-80
Scope	1868-81: letters (41) to Lord Farrer
Repository	Linnean Society of London
Scope	c1850: letters (16) to Robert Fitch
Repository	Norwich Castle Museum
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 9528
Scope	letters to Sir WH Flower
Repository	John Innes Foundation Historical Collections
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 949 Innes
Scope	1828-78: letters (155) to William Darwin Fox
Repository	Cambridge University: Christs College Library
Scope	letters (44) to Sir Francis Galton
Repository	London University: University College London (UCL) Special Collections
Record Reference	GALTON link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 19968 Galton
Scope	1860-62: letters to George Gordon
Repository	Elgin Museum
Record Reference	NRA(S)1989
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 22745 Gordon
Scope	1855-81: letters (155) to Asa Gray
Repository	Harvard University: Arnold Arboretum
Other reference	see Hamer, Archives and MSS in USA 1961
Scope	1860-81: letters (30) to Albert Gunther
Repository	Shrewsbury School Library
Scope	1849-54: letters (12) to Albany Hancock
Repository	New York Botanical Garden Library
Scope	1831-37: corresp with John Henslow
Repository	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 25004
Other reference	see Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
Scope	1843-66: corresp with Sir Joseph Hooker (3 vols)
Repository	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 25004
Other reference	see Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
Scope	1851-82: letters (176) to Thomas Huxley
Repository	Imperial College Archives and Corporate Records Unit
Record Reference	B/HUXLEY link to online catalogue
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 8194 Huxley
Scope	1846-81: letters (27) to JB Innes
Repository	Case Western Reserve University Library
Scope	1858-82: letters (46) to Ernest Krause
Repository	Huntington Library
Other reference	see NUC MS 61-2466
Scope	1846-56: letters (11) to Sir John Lubbock
Repository	Royal Society
Record Reference	LUB
Scope	1837-74: letters (c450) to Sir Charles Lyell
Repository	American Philosophical Society Library
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 9728 American Philosophic
Scope	c1833-82: corresp, mainly with Ralph Meldola (some copies)
Repository	Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 42507 Oxford
Scope	1859-78: letters (copies) to Andrew Murray
Repository	Natural History Museum
Record Reference	L MSS MUR
Other reference	see Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
Scope	1863-77: letters (11) to Alfred Newton
Repository	Cambridge University: Department of Zoology Balfour and Newton Libraries
Scope	1839-60: letters (11) to John Phillips
Repository	Oxford University: Museum of Natural History
Record Reference	John Phillips Archive/Box 43
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 42482 Phillips
Scope	1874-82: letters (87) to George Romanes
Repository	American Philosophical Society Library
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 9728 American Philosophic
Scope	1839-74: letters (13) to Royal Geographical Society
Repository	Royal Geographical Society
Record Reference	RGS/CB link to online catalogue
Scope	1868-71: letters (copies) to Osbert Salvin
Repository	Natural History Museum
Record Reference	L MSS SALV
Other reference	see Catalogue of MSS... Natural History Museum (1995)
Scope	1860-62: letters (15, copies) to Philip Sclater
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	M/441
Scope	letters (22) to Richard Strachey
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MS 60631
Scope	1855-81: corresp with W Tegetmeier
Repository	New York Botanical Garden Library
Scope	1873-81: letters to Sir William Thiselton-Dyer
Repository	Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Library and Archives
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 25004
Other reference	see Bridson, Natural history MS resources 1980
Scope	1863-71: letters to Roland Trimen and related papers
Repository	Royal Entomological Society
Record Reference	Box 21/54-97
Other reference	see Berit Pedersen, Guide to the Archives of the Royal Entomological Society (2002)
Scope	letters (35) to John Tyndall
Repository	Royal Institution of Great Britain
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 9522
Scope	1857-81: corresp with Alfred Russel Wallace
Repository	British Library, Manuscript Collections
Record Reference	Add MS 46434
Scope	1846-62: estate corresp
Repository	Lincolnshire Archives
Record Reference	HIG
NRA catalogue reference	NRA 18982 Higgins
Scope	c1870-82: letters (73)
Repository	Huntington Library
Other reference	see Guide to literary MSS 1979
Scope	1857-81: letters (23)
Repository	Linnean Society of London
Scope	1837-1913: letters (150) to and from associates, incl Browne, Hooker, Huxley and Lyell
Repository	Natural History Museum
Record Reference	Kohler Darwin Collection
Other reference	see Annual Return 2006
Scope	1837-1913: autograph letters (150) to and from Charles Darwin and his associates, including Browne, Hooker, Huxley, Lyell
Repository	Natural History Museum
Record Reference	[Kohler Darwin Collection]
Other reference	see Annual Return 2006

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