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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-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-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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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-1380A

From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1850]
Source of text:
Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
Summary:

Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]

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-13818

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan [1858-9]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 242
Summary:

Sends record of pigeon flight from London to Antwerp. [Lord W. Lennox, Merrie England (1857), p. 185.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1382

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 164
Summary:

Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.

Contributor:
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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-13827

From:
William Charles Linnaeus Martin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1859–61]
Source of text:
DAR 171: 56/1–15
Summary:

MS of a paper called "Comments on Mr Darwin’s grand theory", which generally supports CD but proposes that present flightless birds are primitive. Paper supplemented by a diagram showing the phylogeny of birds.

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
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