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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
Two letters have arrived for WED.
Joseph has had two teeth out.
Writes concerning marriage trust.
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
Discusses attachment of antennae in larvae of cirripedes.
Asks for information about how parasitic cirripedes are attached to host.
Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.
Is coming tomorrow to see Lorenz Spengler on cirripedes [Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758)] and the remaining sessile cirripedes in the collection. Has finished Balanus.
Accepts invitation for the 20th.
Detailed critique of CL’s A manual of elementary geology [3d ed. (1851), used in editing 4th ed. (1852)].
Sends thanks for a note and returned drawing.
He is sending more text.
Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].
Receipt for £3 5s, proceeds of a lecture, for the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
CD is pleased with plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]; most corrections need only a touch. Requests revises soon and asks how much he owes.
Concerning specimens he wants collected in the Azores.
Collection of fossil cirripedes to be returned. Would RF be willing to donate duplicates to the British Museum?
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
CD likes the plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] except pl. I [Scalpellum], which calls for several revisions; he sees that not all corrections were made, but assumes they called for too extensive changes.
Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.
CD appreciates JdeCS’s care. Sends specimens, noting points to be observed. He adds that the figures which have been most troublesome are those of which drawings were made [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)].