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DCP-LETT-1310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].

Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[26 Jan – Mar 1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses mollusc specimens and related notes sent to AH. Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses various cirripede species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Summary:

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
21 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]

Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[13? Apr 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.

Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1317

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1318

From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1850
Source of text:
DAR 77: 168–9
Summary:

Replies to CD’s questions regarding impregnation of peas, beans, cabbages, and other plants by insects, wind, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1319

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 and 7 Apr 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.

JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.

Argument with Falconer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1319F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
7 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Thanks for the information about a possible investment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1320

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
8 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 228)
Summary:

Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
15 [Apr 1850]
Source of text:
J. Hancock (1886): 258–9
Summary:

Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
28 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses possibility of providing B. J. Sulivan with a vessel for fossil hunting in Patagonia.

Asks RO to ask Mrs Dixon about borrowing cirripede specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[May 1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76)
Summary:

Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
4 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
5 May [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 May [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32)
Summary:

Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93)
Summary:

Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives
Summary:

Thanks JGF for geological information.

Steenstrup’s cirripede specimens have been of great use and interest. CD has now described 33 fossil pedunculated cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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