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DCP-LETT-1485

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
2 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/6)
Summary:

Discusses rent reduction and possibility of a lease.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1485F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Ransome
Date:
5 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (William Finkelstein autograph collection 1747–1979 (MS 19th cent+) vol. 2)
Summary:

Forwards an order for £1 1s in response to a circular from Ipswich Museum.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1486

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 4
Summary:

Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].

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DCP-LETT-1487

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 Sept [1852]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.

Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1488

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
21 Oct [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 17
Summary:

Informs JW of his intention to sell his N. W. Railway shares.

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DCP-LETT-1489

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 [Oct 1852]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81)
Summary:

News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.

At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1490

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
20 Nov 1852
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019)
Summary:

A statement of payments made by trustees to CD and by CD to trustees for the years 1851 and 1852.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
23 Nov 1852
Source of text:
DAR 146: 6
Summary:

Recommends GJ for Government pension.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1492

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
25 Nov [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Thanks JDD for information.

Discusses Acasta sporillus.

Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].

Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.

Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.

Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.

Contributor:
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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:
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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:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-1496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Apr 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 107: 66–7
Summary:

Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.

Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.

[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]

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DCP-LETT-840

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Parsons, 3d earl of Rosse, Lord Rosse, Lord Oxmantown; Royal Society of London
Date:
16 Mar [1852]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR2: 226)
Summary:

Referee’s report on paper by Daniel Sharpe ["On foliation and cleavage", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].

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