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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:
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:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
31 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A52
Summary:

Would like to meet JSH in London.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
15 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 124
Summary:

Discusses the development and morphology of Verruca.

Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].

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From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1853
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 13
Summary:

Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
18 June 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 126
Summary:

Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. Comments on various specimens.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 July 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 127
Summary:

Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 July [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 31
Summary:

Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Oct 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 149
Summary:

Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
6 Sept 1853
Source of text:
DAR 146: 7
Summary:

Thanks for rare Balanus specimens. Asks about their source.

Comments on GJ’s book [Terra Lindisfarnensis (1853)].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 150
Summary:

Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.

Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 128
Summary:

Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.

Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 104: 186–7
Summary:

Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.

Honoured for Coral reefs

and Cirripedia.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 125
Summary:

Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.

Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
24 Dec 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 129
Summary:

Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].

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From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 6 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
DAR (CD library – Dana, J. D. 1853)
Summary:

Responds to CD’s criticism of his use of word "Kingdom" in discussing geographical distribution of Crustacea.

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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 11 Dec 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 391
Summary:

List of most anomalous Leguminosae [from George Bentham].

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
19 Jan [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 130
Summary:

Further comments on JAHdeB’s MS.

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From:
Bartholomew James Sulivan
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
2 Feb [1855]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 251
Summary:

The only mainland vegetation he saw on Falkland Island shores were trees. Remembers no strange birds there, but on journey home saw a woodcock more than 500 miles from the nearest land.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
1 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 118
Summary:

Thanks JDH for dedication of Himalayan journals. CD praises the work and suggests stylistic revisions.

Lyell’s remarks on lava beds in letter from Madeira are not original – they refer exclusively to Élie de Beaumont’s data.

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