From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
6 June [1848]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/17)
Summary:
Mentions his account; visit to Lincolnshire by his sister [Susan Darwin].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
14 June [1848]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/20)
Summary:
Discusses possible land transactions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73)
Summary:
Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.
Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.
Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].
Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
28 [June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.74)
Summary:
Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[5 or 12] July 1848
Source of text:
DAR 143: 306
Summary:
Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
2 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A18–A20
Summary:
Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.
Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".
Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
10 July 1848
Source of text:
British Museum (Central Archive Staff Applications and Testimonials: S. P. Woodward CE33/710/45)
Summary:
Is pleased to support SPW’s application for a position in the fossil department at the British Museum.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
13 July [1848]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle , 22 July 1848, p. 491
Summary:
Reports on the effect of potato blight in his crop.
Contributor:
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From:
William Buckland
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15 July [1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 4
Summary:
Will forward recommendation of Edward Cresy to Edwin Chadwick, but thinks there will be no further need of engineers.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[15 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 307
Summary:
Encloses note from William Buckland [1190], stating that no appointment of surveyor is to be made. Thinks further recommendation would be unwise, but will write to Sir Henry De la Beche and [Robert?] Hutton if EC wishes.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
[20 July 1848]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 308
Summary:
Will speak to Richard Owen, Henry De la Beche, and Robert Hutton concerning appointment for EC.
Leaving for sea-side on Saturday.
Contributor:
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From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
24 July [1848]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 94 JDH/1/10)
Summary:
Brian Hodgson reading CD’s Journal of researches with delight.
Forwarding breeding pamphlets.
JDH recommends P. S. Pallas on degeneration.
CD’s facts on sex in barnacles startling.
Hugh Falconer’s health.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Boott
Date:
20 Aug 1848
Source of text:
James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (website viewed 7 February 2012)
Summary:
CD will write to A. A. Gould for aid. Thanks for sympathy and assistance about chloroform.
Contributor:
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From:
John Edward Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Aug 1848
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/254-255)
Summary:
Is sorry that any person has misunderstood his intentions. JEG read his papers on cirripedes at the Zoological Society without intending to interfere with CD’s work; he merely wished to record his old observations, made before CD commenced his study, and thought that by so doing he was helping CD. [See "Description of a new species of Anatifa" and "On Thaliella", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1848): 44.]
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
29 Aug [1848]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/256-257)
Summary:
It had been suggested to CD that JEG intended to anticipate some of his work on the Cirripedia. CD doubted this because JEG had suggested that CD commence the work and has assisted throughout; however, CD sought assurances regarding JEG’s intentions as he wished that "what little novelty there yet remained in the subject, should be the reward of my work". CD apologises for having spoken to JEG on the subject and will communicate JEG’s assurances to those who had expressed their opinions regarding JEG’s intentions.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[24 Sept 1848]
Source of text:
The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection AIL Coll 203 B)
Summary:
Congratulations on CL’s knighthood.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
1 Sept [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.76)
Summary:
Describes his cirripede work. Asks whether HM-E can arrange for him to borrowspecimens, especially of species described in Dumont d’Urville, Voyage of"Astrolabe" [1830–2]. Lists species that interesthim.
Compliments HM-E on his Crustacés [1834–40].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
3 Sept [1848]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 224)
Summary:
Describes his research on cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens. Comments on previous work on the subject.
Contributor:
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From:
William Thompson
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
29 Sept 1848
Source of text:
Living Cirripedia (1854): 272–3
Summary:
Concerning the measurements of Balanus specimens with respect to growth.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Hellier Baily
Date:
5 Oct 1848
Source of text:
Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963)
Summary:
Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.
Contributor:
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Correspondent
- Darwin, C. R.
- Herschel, John10
- Hooker, J. D.8
- Cresy, Edward, Jr6
- Darwin, Emma6
- Wedgwood, Emma6
- Gray, J. E.5
- Higgins, John5
- Lyell, Charles4
- Owen, Richard4
- Phillips, John4
- Henslow, J. S.3
- Chambers, Robert2
- Darwin, Catherine2
- Innes, J. B.2
- Langton, Catherine2
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)2
- Ramsay, A. C.2
- Smith of Jordanhill, James2
- Williamson, W. C.2
- Agassiz, Louis1
- Baily, W. H.1
- Ball, Robert1
- Boott, Francis1
- Bowerbank, J. S.1
- Breton, Philip le1
- Buckland, William1
- Calvert, Harry1
- Darwin, E. A.1
- Darwin, S. E.1
- De la Beche, H. T.1
- Dixon, E. S.1
- Farrer, T. H.1
- Gardeners’ Chronicle1
- Gould, A. A.1
- Grenville, G. N.1
- Hamilton, W. A. B.1
- Hawkins, B. W.1
- Head, E. W.1
- Heywood, James1
- Hooker, Maria (a)1
- Horsman, Edward1
- Hotham, Harriet1
- Kay, Joseph1
- King, P. J. L.1
- Lubbock, Harriet1
- Milne-Edwards, Henri1
- Norman, G. W.1
- Percival, E. F.1
- Phillips, T. J.1
- Phillips-Jodrell, T. J.1
- Powell, Baden1
- Price, Bonamy1
- Quekett, J. T.1
- Robartes, T. J. A.1
- Ross, J. C.1
- Royal College of Surgeons of England1
- Russell, John1
- Senior, N. W.1
- Sharpe, Daniel1
- Thompson, William (a)1
- Turner, Maria (a)1
- Unidentified1
- Verney, Harry1
- Waterhouse, G. R.1
- Wedgwood, Hensleigh1
- Wedgwood, Josiah, III1
- Woodward, S. P.1
- Yorke, H. G. R.1