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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.

DCP-LETT-1232

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

William Thompson

Date:

[1 Mar 1849]

Source of text:

Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add.L.b.1: 24)

Summary:

Encloses diagram illustrating difference between Chthamalus and Balanus. Specimens sent. Finds no Chthamalus in WT’s collection.

Has read with much interest WT’s book [The natural history of Ireland, vol. 1 (1849)].

Recommends E. S. Dixon’s book [Ornamental and domestic poultry; their history and management (1848)].

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-954

From:

Charles Robert Darwin

To:

William Thompson

Date:

18 Feb [1846?]

Source of text:

Ulster Museum, Belfast

Summary:

Thanks for note on Atlantic dust.

Suggested in private to Edward Forbes that bird migration might follow lines of now sunken land.

Has admired WT’s work for years.

Will some day publish on variation.

Contributor:

Darwin Correspondence Project