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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 [Sept 1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97)
Summary:

Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
25 [Apr 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 21
Summary:

Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
26 [Apr 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 19, 22
Summary:

Writes concerning marriage trust.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[1853–72?]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London)
Summary:

If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
10 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
23 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4)
Summary:

On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.

Discusses anamorphism;

position of heart in Cleodora.

Variability within species;

cementing process in cirripedes.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:

Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.

Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.

AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
29 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
29 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82)
Summary:

Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.

He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
31 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103)
Summary:

Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].

Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
18 Feb 1853
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 20
Summary:

Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
J. Hancock 1886, p. 275
Summary:

Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.

Contributor:
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From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1853
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
8 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A21–A24
Summary:

CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
15 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30)
Summary:

Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
19 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.104)
Summary:

Objects to early deadline for submitting manuscript [of Living Cirripedia 2 (1854)]. Discusses illustrations by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wigley
Date:
21 Mar 1853
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30)
Summary:

Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.

Contributor:
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