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DCP-LETT-1459F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Hilton
Date:
25 Oct [1851?]
Source of text:
Stowe Collection, Stowe School Library (tipped into Living Cirripedia (1851); STO 5/45)
Summary:

Thanks for offer of Cirripedia specimens from the Northern Atlantic, but has seen so many that he does not need more.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1460

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[Nov 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 82–5
Summary:

Flora of New Zealand.

Reconsidering variability of insular species.

Becoming convinced of the probability that the southern flora is a fragmentary one – all that remains of a great southern continent.

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DCP-LETT-1461

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
4 Nov [1851]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Asks for reference to publication about Xenobalanus.

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DCP-LETT-1461F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
4 Nov 1851
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Returns the enclosed parchment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Nov [1851]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 14)
Summary:

Proposes to send THH vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A85–A88
Summary:

Sends cirripede specimens for Ipswich Museum.

Asks how much a village fireworks display would cost.

Comments on the need in education for good habits of expression and accurate observation instead of making "wretched Latin verses".

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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:
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DCP-LETT-1465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss
Date:
21 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Asks to borrow FK’s specimen of Conia rosea. Would like to know if FK collected it himself [in S. Africa] or was given it, because CD has a closely allied species from Australia, which surprises him. [See Living Cirripedia 2: 335.]

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DCP-LETT-1465F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
24 Dec 1851
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam White
Date:
26 Dec 1851
Source of text:
Testimonials of Adam White, F.L.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum [1854], p. 15 (National Library of Scotland, 3.2043(6))
Summary:

Testimonial letter expressing CD’s high opinion of AW’s zoological attainments.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1466F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1852–60]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3)
Summary:

Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1466G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
26 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asks Thomas Salt to accept the repayment of a mortgage from Captain Muckleston’s executors, if Josiah Wedgwood agrees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1466H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
30 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Louisiana State University Libraries, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (James E. Murdoch Papers, Mss. 667)
Summary:

Will send JR’s box of cirripedes on Thursday.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1467

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William & Julius Fairbeard
Date:
[Oct 1855 – May 1856]
Source of text:
DAR 206: 38
Summary:

Five questions on variability in peas.

W & JF recommended to CD by Mr Cattell.

CD planted an experimental pea garden this summer.

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DCP-LETT-1469

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Asks JS to compare cirripede specimens with those of Lorenz Spengler to establish comparative nomenclature.

Requests reference to article describing Xenobalanus.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1470

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Jan 1852]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22
Summary:

Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1471

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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DCP-LETT-1472

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
23 Jan [1852?]
Source of text:
Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin , QH365 .O2 1859)
Summary:

Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1472A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester
Date:
30 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56)
Summary:

The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1473

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

Sending first volumes on Living and Fossil Cirripedia. Solicits JDD’s opinion, especially on sexual relations of Scalpellum and Ibla, on which he "hardly expect[s] to be believed".

Sends unusual crustacean specimen collected by B. J. Sulivan.

The Sporillus sent by JDD is a very curious species of Acasta [see Living Cirripedia 2: 319].

Asks JDD to identify and give geographical distribution of pieces of coral in which some cirripedes are imbedded.

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