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DCP-LETT-11271F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
8 Dec [1842-81]
Source of text:
University of Otago, Special Collections (MS 49)
Summary:

Orders large pot of spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-11313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
[1842–82?]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.536)
Summary:

Orders pot of soft spermaceti ointment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13776

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Baxter; William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
10 [Oct 1842 – Apr 1882]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Orders distilled water, 2 oz of camphorated spirits, and perfume.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13805

From:
Hugh Falconer
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[1842–3]
Source of text:
DAR 205.5: 215
Summary:

Has seen lately a true ruminant with the two central metacarpals distinct. It was the foot of an Anoplotherium in a recent ruminant.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-13828

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Edward Mudie; Mary Kingsford Pawling; Mary Kingsford Mudie
Date:
10 Dec [1842-5 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Rare Book and Manuscript Library (Charles E. Mudie Collection, 1816–1897: Correspondence, B29)
Summary:

Declines invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13867G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
[1842–82]
Source of text:
eBay (April 2001)
Summary:

Will be glad to see recipient and Mr Morris at Down the following day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1768

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter; William Baxter
Date:
24 Oct [1842-5, 1853 or 1855-68]
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Sends enclosed order for two bottles [of unspecified chemical].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1786

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
29 Nov [1842-55]
Source of text:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library (BANC MSS 74/78 z)
Summary:

Not able to assist JP as he knows no schoolmaster in the area.

Cannot answer zoological question but thinks the two Serpulae are distinct.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-605

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[Sept–Dec 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.30)
Summary:

Discusses relationship of subsidence to the formation of coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-605F

From:
Alexander Bridport Becher
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1842
Source of text:
United Kingdom Hydrographic Office Archive (Letter Book no .10 (1841–2), p. 510)
Summary:

Francis Beaufort has instructed ABB to order three copies of Coral Reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-613

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Yarrell
Date:
[5 or 12] Sept 1842
Source of text:
Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Letters to Dr William Kitchen Parker and his sons, MS-Papers-1256-2)
Summary:

CD is too dull and languid to see Mr Bicheno but will be glad to answer his questions if he writes.

Asks WY to ask J. Sebright "whether the cross with white bantam brought back any of the ""secondary male characters"" to the hen–cock breed".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-613A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Stokes
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1842]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 91
Summary:

Returns snuff box.

Sends a microscope for repair.

Makes appointment to discuss some corals that he is sending.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-614

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
Date:
[13? Jan 1842]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with LJ’s introduction [to Fish]. He rejoices that he persuaded LJ to undertake this work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-615

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Jan 1842]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD relates that Robert Brown is anxious to have [C. M.] Leman[n] elected librarian of the Linnean Society and urges JSH to come to vote for him. CD joins in the request.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-616

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Geological Society of London
Date:
31 Jan [1842]
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/7/25)
Summary:

Hopes to meet with museum committee after 11 o’clock next day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-617

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Forbes Royle
Date:
[2 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
University of Rochester Libraries, Department of Rare Books, Special Collections and Preservation
Summary:

Asks JFR to support E. A. Darwin’s election to the Athenaeum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-617F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Francis Boott
Date:
[3 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
Christie’s (dealers) (13 December 2006, lot 34)
Summary:

"My Dear Sir, I have called on you, to solicit your vote & interest at the Athenaeum Club […] in favour of my brother, Erasmus Darwin".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-617G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[4 Feb 1842]
Source of text:
Enns Entomology Museum, University of Missouri
Summary:

Informs Owen of the fossil finds of F. J. Muñiz in south America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-618

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Thomas De la Beche
Date:
7 Feb 1842
Source of text:
National Museum of Wales, Department of Natural Sciences (De la Beche)
Summary:

Asks De la Beche about variation among domesticated animals in Jamaica.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-619

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hugh Edwin Strickland
Date:
17 Feb [1842]
Source of text:
Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers)
Summary:

CD approves of HES’s "laws" [of nomenclature]. Regrets that [J. E.?] Gray does not approve of the scheme. CD has sent the paper to William Ogilby and suggests that HES send it to G. R. Waterhouse, of whom he has a high opinion.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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