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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-13770F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hall Bakewell
Date:
30 Apr [1856-68]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (4 June 2008)
Summary:

Thanks for case of inherited malconformation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13778

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Bentham
Date:
27 Jan [1858]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Bentham Correspondence, Vol. 3, Daintree–Dyer, 1830–1884, GEB/1/3: f. 676)
Summary:

Asks GB to vote for "a distant connexion of mine" at Athenaeum, and to mention this to Hooker.

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-13784

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles James Fox Bunbury, 8th baronet
Date:
[20 Mar 1855]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University
Summary:

CD hopes to have an hour’s talk with CJFB before CD leaves London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
25 [Apr 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 21
Summary:

Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-1380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
26 [Apr 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 19, 22
Summary:

Writes concerning marriage trust.

Contributor:
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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-13822

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lovegrove
Date:
14 Dec [1859-71]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Acknowledges contribution to Down Coal and Clothing Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13829

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Mathias Mull
Date:
[after 24 Nov 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 146: 424a
Summary:

Thanks MM for reference to Shakespeare’s eleventh sonnet.

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-1383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[Jan 1851]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 57)
Summary:

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.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13831

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June [1855]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Accepts invitation for the 20th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection)
Summary:

Detailed critique of CL’s A manual of elementary geology [3d ed. (1851), used in editing 4th ed. (1852)].

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13844

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
Date:
30 July [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1))
Summary:

Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1385

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Mumford
Date:
1 Jan 1851
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D17)
Summary:

Receipt for £3 5s, proceeds of a lecture, for the Down Coal and Clothing Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
21 Jan [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]; most corrections need only a touch. Requests revises soon and asks how much he owes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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