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DCP-LETT-1547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
18 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Lucy T. Eisenberg (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks JAHdeB for his present of two volumes [Description des Entomostracés fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France et de la Belgique (1852) and "Les Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. CD was interested in the remarks on geographical distribution of the Entomostraca.

CD’s second volume for the Ray Society [Living Cirripedia] is finished but not yet published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1578A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
16 Aug [1854-8]
Source of text:
DAR 224
Summary:

Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
21 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hannah Louisa Bernard; Hannah Louisa Stutchbury
Date:
22 Aug 1854
Source of text:
Matthews 1982, p. 262
Summary:

Arranges to return a collection of cirripedes which belongs to her husband [Samuel Stutchbury].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
24 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can AH spare Alcippe specimens for British Museum?

C. S. Bate has found Alcippe off Plymouth.

Discusses returning specimens to AH.

Owes to AH the discussion of powers of excavation of Verruca in Living Cirripedia [vol. 2 (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1581

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 384
Summary:

JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.

Insects found in coal.

Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.

JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
26 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 272
Summary:

Discusses specimen of Balanus crenatus.

Sorry JP’s children are ill.

Will come to Liverpool if well [for meeting of BAAS].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1583

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
29 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
Summary:

Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000538

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
26 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/10/62, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001140

From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl Rosse
Date:
4 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/5, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001406

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
5 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/3, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
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Faraday2871

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Thomas Byam Martin
Date:
7 August 1854
Source of text:
BL add MS 41370, f.333-6
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2872

From:
William Frederick Pollock
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
7 August 1854
Source of text:
RI MS F1 I052a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2873

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Frederick Pollock
Date:
8 August 1854
Source of text:
Roy Deeley
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2874

From:
Fabian Carl Ottokar von Feilitzsch
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
11 August 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2875

From:
Vincenzo Flauti
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1854
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2876

From:
Friedrich Wöhler
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
12 August 1854
Source of text:
RS MS MC 5.176
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2877

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Charles Richard Weld
Date:
15 August 1854
Source of text:
Birmingham University Library MS L Adds 1083
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday2878

From:
Faraday report
To:
Trinity House
Date:
15 August 1854
Source of text:
GL MS 30108/2/64.11
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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