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DCP-LETT-1350

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD has received an enormous lot of Scanian and Copenhagen cirripede fossils, some of which he thinks may be better than those sent to JdeCS earlier; asks him to delay engraving foreign specimens until CD has time to go through the new lot.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1351

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.

Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1352

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77)
Summary:

Has heard that Louis Agassiz maintains the doctrine of several species of man "much I daresay to the comfort of the slave-holding southerners".

Homeopathy excites his wrath even more than clairvoyance.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1353

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.96)
Summary:

Discusses woodcut illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia, vol. 1]. Wants species descriptions to be in both Latin and English.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1354

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

New specimens have shown CD he has two distinct species under one name [in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. He adds new figures and suggests deletions. Will come to London when he has proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198)
Summary:

About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];

would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199)
Summary:

Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1358

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
12 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD has two corrections in spelling on woodcut [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has asked J. S. Bowerbank who should cut the blocks and suggested JdeCS get it done. Repeats arrangements to compare specimens and proofs in London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1359

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker
Date:
20 Sept 1850
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4941 I, 4to)
Summary:

Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens.

Describes progress on his book [Fossil Cirripedia] and his work on living cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens.

Comments on book [F. C. L. Koch and Wilhelm Dunker, Norddeutschen Oolithgebildes (1837)].

Sends thanks to Friedrich Adolph Roemer and R. A. Philippi for specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1360

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
23 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Plans to come to London to examine the proofs of JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has new German specimens; one is unknown and must be introduced but a woodblock will do.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000488

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
12 September 1850
Source of text:
MM/9/68, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000489

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
17 September 1850
Source of text:
MM/9/69, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE512

From:
Mary Somerville
To:
John Murray III
Date:
?? Sep 1850
Source of text:
106, MS 41131, NLS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

Herschel13839

From:
Charles Eyres
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 September 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0186; Reel 1087
Summary:

CE is candidate for office of secretary to Commission of Inquiry into state of University of Cambridge.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13866

From:
John Graham
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 September 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0214; Reel 1087
Summary:

Received royal warrant to appoint commission of inquiry into state of Cambridge University. Asks JH to attend between 16 and 22 Oct. Also inviting Adam Sedgwick and John Romilly. Wants joint meeting with Oxford inquiry commission, headed by Bishop of Norwich.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel5903

From:
Joanna Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
26 September [1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.26
Summary:

Thanks for his encouragement. Regarding the Hoggerts.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8155

From:
Thomas Wilson
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 September 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.423
Summary:

As president, TW asks JH to chair next annual soirée of Leeds Mechanics' Institution and Literary Society. Names distinguished predecessors. Describes members and activities.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel8156

From:
Margaret Louisa Herschel
To:
Thomas Wilson
Date:
8?] September [1850
Source of text:
RS:HS 18.424
Summary:

JH is touring France and may not return before November. Presumes JH will not accept TW's invitation [see TW's 1850-9-3] to preside at annual soirée.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9177

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Whewell
Date:
[1850-9]
Source of text:
TC, Camb. Add. Ms.a.20780
Summary:

The publisher [John] Murray wants a new edition of JH's Admiralty Manual. Suggests revisions for WW to make in WW's paper in that volume.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel9855

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
James A. Gordon
Date:
[5 September 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.189 & 23.91
Summary:

Has no intention of standing as MP for Cambridge. Thanks him for his generous offer. Would be pleased to pass on £200 to his cousin Thomas Baldwin.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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