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		Creator		Whitelegge, Thomas, 1850-1927
		Title		Thomas Whitelegge - Letters from Charles Darwin, 1878
		Level of Description		Collection
		Date of Work		1878
		Type of Material		Textual Records
		Call Number		MLMSS 5833
		Issue Copy		Microfilm - CY 3168, frames 18 - 28 (MLMSS 5833)
		Physical Description		1 folder - 0.02 Meters Textual Records - (manuscript)
		Administrative / Biographical Note		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).
		Contents		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)
		Source		Unknown


		General Note		Previously located at ML Ad 1/1-3.
		Author/Artist		Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
		Subject		Botany -- Australia.