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DCP-LETT-13872

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1852-3]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:

Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1493

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Ripon College, Lane Library
Summary:

At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.

Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1494

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58)
Summary:

Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.

Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.

Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000746

From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
Lord Rosse
Date:
15 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/66, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000747

From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
18 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/67, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000748

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Date:
22 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/68, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000749

From:
David Brewster
To:
C R Weld
Date:
20 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/69, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000750

From:
Charles Piazzi Smyth
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
22 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/70, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000751

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
24 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/71, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000752

From:
Thomas Romney Robinson
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Date:
28 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/72, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000753

From:
Thomas Romney Robinson
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Date:
30 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/73, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000754

From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
Lord Rosse
Date:
30 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/74, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000755

From:
William Lassell
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
30 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/12/75, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001499

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
William Henry Smyth
Date:
7 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/19/102, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001500

From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
14 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/19/103, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001501

From:
William Henry Smith
To:
Royal Society
Date:
29 December 1852
Source of text:
MM/19/105, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel10483

From:
John R. Hind
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[15 December 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.361
Summary:

Has discovered an eighth planet. Gives readings. Proposes to call it Thalia.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11257

From:
William Lassell
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 December 1852]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.148
Summary:

Has been given every facility to erect his telescope in Malta. Atmosphere has been excellent for observations. Has studied the satellites of Uranus and the ring of Saturn; the latter is puzzling. Has been astonished with the views of Orion.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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