DAR 185 consists of miscellaneous acquisitions to the Darwin Archive since 1976. DAR 185: 27, letter to Fleeming Jenkin, was preseted to the UL by Penelope Jenkins. DAR 185: 29, letter to Caroline Kennard, was purchased from Stuart Bennett bookseller, in November 1981. DAR 185: 46, letter to Charles Lyell, has been on indefinite loan from the National Trust, Leith Hill Place, Surrey, since March 1979. DAR 185: 68-69, letters to George Robert Waterhouse, were purchased at auction from Sotheby's in July 1978. DAR 185: 74, 'an account of fine dust', was purchased form Peter Gautrey in 1983. DAR 181: 81-90, letters to Thomas Rivers and Alfred Newton, were purchased at Sotheby's in July 1987. DAR 185: 91, letter to Charles Stokes, was purchased from Chaucer's Head in September 1987. DAR 185: 92, letter to Joseph Dalton Hooker, was purchased in October 1987. DAR 185: 93-94, letters to St George Jackson Mivart, was purchased at Sotheby's in July 1988. DAR 185: 95, letter to David Forbes, was purchased from Bernard Quartich Ltd in February 1988. DAR 185: 96, letter to Cuthbert Collingwood, was presented by Mrs Bright Saunders in 1989. DAR 185: 97-100, letters to Ferdinand Cohn, were purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd. in August 1990. DAR 185: 101, children's story by Emma Darwin, was presented by Sir Geoffrey Keynes in August 1977. DAR 185: 102-103, MS sheets, were purchased from Peter Gautrey. DAR 185: 104, letter to J. S. Bowerank, was purchased from Sotheby's in December 1990. DAR 185: 105, letter to Francis Galton, was purchased at auction from Phillips in 1991. DAR 185: 106, letter to John le Couteur, was purchased form Mr R. E Beard in July 1991.DAR 185: 108, leaves from the 'Origin of species', was purchased form Sir Geoffrey Keynes in February 1976. DAR 185: 110, fragments from the original manuscript of 'Origin of species', was presented by Lady Nora Barlow in November 1963. DAR 185: 111-113 were purchased at auction from Sotheby's in August 1995. DAR 185: 114, letter to William Benjamin Carpenter, was purchased form Sotheby's in September 1995. DAR 185: 115-116, letter to Richard Owen, was purchased from Sotheby's in December 1995. DAR 185: 117, letter to William Erasmus Darwin, was purchased at auction from Julian Browning in March 1996. DAR 185: 118, letter to unidentified, was purchased from Bernard Quaritch Ltd. in December 1996. DAR 185: 119, letter to Daniel Oliver, was purchased at auction from Sotheby's in July 1997. DAR 185: 120-121, letters to Frederick Bates, were purchased from Bernard Quaritch in July 1997. DAR 185: 122-123 were presented by Dr David E. Coombe in July 1997. DAR 185: 124, facsimile letter, was presened by the family of Dr R.L.M. Synge in October 1997. DAR 185: 125-126 were deposited on permanent loan by Richard Darwin Keynes in April 1998; 125 was bequeathed to the Charles Darwin Trust in 2010 and on deposit at CUL; 126 bequeathed to the UL in 2010. DAR 1285: 127-130, letters to Lucy Wedgwood, were donated by Ursula Vaughan Williams in April 1998. DAR 185: 131-134, letters to Archibald Geike, was purchased from Mrs Katherine Cowell, in September 1998. DAR 185: 135, MS entitled 'Megarrhiza', was purchased at auction from Sotheby's, New York, in December 1998. DAR 185: 136, letter to W.W. Baxter, was purchased from Maggs Bros in September 1999. DAR 185: 137, MS from 'Origin of species', was purchased form Mr G. Bonnefoy in late 1999. DAR 185: 138, letter to Robert Smith, was purchased from Mrs Ina Plumridge in November 1999. DAR 185: 140, letter to Georgine Tollet, was purchased at auction from J.A. Stargardt, in March 2001. DAR 184: 141-147 was deposited on loan by Richard Darwin Keynes in August 2001; DAR 185: 141-144 and 147 withdrawn in 2018. DAR 185: 148, cheque drawn from Union Bank, was donated by Dr Peter White in January 2004. DAR 185: 149, letter to John Meadows Rodwell, was purchased at auction from Sotheby's in 2006. DAR 185: 150, letter to David Forbes, was purchased from Bernard Quaritch in September 2006. DAR 185: 151, letter to Thomas Walker, was donated by James Somerville in May 2010. DAR 185: 153, letter to Geroge Darwin, was purchased at Bonhams in 2018.