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DCP-LETT-1368

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

CD likes the engravings [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] but is distressed by JdeCS’s slow progress and is being pressed by owners to return their specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1369

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
11 Nov [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress in illustrating fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1369F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam Sedgwick
Date:
11 Oct [1850]
Source of text:
Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1)
Summary:

Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].

Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1370

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
23 Nov 1850
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:

Thanks SC for box of specimens [of cirripedes].

Often wishes he had settled in one of the colonies because of opportunities for his children.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1372

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Salt & Sons
Date:
26 Nov [1850]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/35)
Summary:

Inquires about financial matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1373

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
1 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 15
Summary:

Discusses share dealings and investment matters.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1374

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
5 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.98)
Summary:

Discusses illustrations [for Living Cirripedia 1 (1851)]. Mentions drawings by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1375

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
13 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/38)
Summary:

Discusses his account. Mentions reduction in rent due to agricultural conditions.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1376

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[Dec? 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1377

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/41)
Summary:

Asks his opinion concerning possible investment. Asks about possible land sale to Mr Mason.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13799F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1850–4?]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (17 November 1995)
Summary:

Two letters have arrived for WED.

Joseph has had two teeth out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13807

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[Apr 1850 – Jan 1851]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1381

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
29 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Smith College Library
Summary:

Discusses attachment of antennae in larvae of cirripedes.

Asks for information about how parasitic cirripedes are attached to host.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1382F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection)
Summary:

Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
9 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends thanks for a note and returned drawing.

He is sending more text.

Contributor:
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