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DCP-LETT-1075

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wickham Flower
Date:
23 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks JWF for [cirripede] fossils; one species seems from a new formation.

Regrets that his health makes it necessary to decline an invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1213

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
[after 12 July 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 16
Summary:

Inquires about the nature of some money recently paid to him.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1214

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
[1 May – 5 June 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 144: 131
Summary:

Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1267F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
4 Nov [1851]
Source of text:
J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (26–7 June 2007)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1340

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
13 June [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 44
Summary:

Thanks CSB for drawings of [cirripede] larva and for permission to cite unpublished paper ["On the development of the cirripedes", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 324–32]. Describes method of preserving specimens. Mentions Balanus common on tidal rocks at Tenby.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1345

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
18 Aug [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 45
Summary:

Thanks CSB for cirripede larvae.

Has been unwell.

Cannot see transverse articulation referred to and does not believe in it.

Sends species synonyms.

Discussion of Chthamalinae.

Suggests using asphalt to seal specimen containers.

Comments on mouth of larva.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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-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-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-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:
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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

DCP-LETT-1387

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
24 Jan [1851]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Collection of fossil cirripedes to be returned. Would RF be willing to donate duplicates to the British Museum?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1388

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

CD likes the plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] except pl. I [Scalpellum], which calls for several revisions; he sees that not all corrections were made, but assumes they called for too extensive changes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1389

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

CD appreciates JdeCS’s care. Sends specimens, noting points to be observed. He adds that the figures which have been most troublesome are those of which drawings were made [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.

Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
19 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Comments on JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Asks if JdeCS can lend him specimens of fossil Balanidae.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
3 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cirripede fossil specimens returned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Harris
Date:
4 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 233–4)
Summary:

Has finished the last proof of his monograph [Fossil Lepadidae] and returns WH’s specimens. Has named two new species from the collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1395F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wickham Flower
Date:
[11 Mar 1851?]
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009)
Summary:

Thanks for specimens. Will return books on Monday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[27 Mar 1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78a)
Summary:

Sends condolences to WDF on the death of his father. Has brought his daughter [Anne] to J. M. Gully for the water-cure.

Contributor:
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