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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[18 Dec 1847]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
Summary:

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter
Date:
2 Oct [1847?]
Source of text:
Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections
Summary:

Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[1847 or 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 329
Summary:

Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Nov 1847–51]
Source of text:
John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Summary:

"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …

What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
23 Dec [1847-54]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Date:
5 May [1847]
Source of text:
Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
Summary:

Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[6 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192)
Summary:

A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.

Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.

Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project