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DCP-LETT-1323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[May 1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76)
Summary:

Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1324

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
4 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1325

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
5 May [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 May [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32)
Summary:

Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93)
Summary:

Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives
Summary:

Thanks JGF for geological information.

Steenstrup’s cirripede specimens have been of great use and interest. CD has now described 33 fossil pedunculated cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1329

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1330

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Describes progress in illustration of fossil cirripede specimens. Thanks for answers to questions. Comments on hermaphroditism. Describes his discovery of parasitic male cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
22 May [1850]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 200)
Summary:

Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1333

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[26 May 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Urges dispatch on illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia]; CD’s MS has been ready for some time and all depends on JdeCS. Suggests a way to hasten progress.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1334

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
27 May [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35)
Summary:

Discusses his account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP93

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
27 May 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/73)
Summary:

Sorry to hear that WK is unable to visit.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

RS-MM-000485

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
29 May 1850
Source of text:
MM/9/65, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000486

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
31 May 1850
Source of text:
MM/9/66, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000815

From:
unknown
To:
Royal Society
Date:
13 May 1850
Source of text:
MM/13/121, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001173

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Samuel Hunter Christie
Date:
17 May [1850]
Source of text:
MM/17/38, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001608

From:
Thomas Warton Jones
To:
unknown
Date:
14 May 1850
Source of text:
MM/21/48, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001621

From:
Baden Powell
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
27 May 1850
Source of text:
MM/21/61, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online

Faraday2284

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
William Buchanan
Date:
2 May 1850
Source of text:
Jean Ferguson
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
Text Online

Faraday2285

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Henry Bence Jones
Date:
3 May 1850
Source of text:
RI MS F1 C35
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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