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DCP-LETT-1289

From:
Charles Pickering
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
9 Jan 1850
Source of text:
DAR 205.4: 99
Summary:

Lists plants of Metia or Aurora Island collected during visit in Sept 1839. Flora same as that of neighbouring Tahiti.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A96–A97
Summary:

Announces birth of his fourth son, Leonard.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 117
Summary:

Hooker’s imprisonment.

Birth of Leonard Darwin.

Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1305A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
25 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 104
Summary:

Is sending JSB sponges.

He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Lardner Woodd
Date:
4 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 148: 375
Summary:

Comments on paper by CHLW.

Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.

"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1309

From:
Abraham Clapham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 161: 150
Summary:

Results of crosses in Phlox.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1318

From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1850
Source of text:
DAR 77: 168–9
Summary:

Replies to CD’s questions regarding impregnation of peas, beans, cabbages, and other plants by insects, wind, etc.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 115
Summary:

On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.

Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.

Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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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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
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HENSLOW-344

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 January 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 283
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-345

From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 February 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 284
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-346

From:
Algernon Pollock
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
13 February 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 271
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-347

From:
William Spence
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 March 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 297
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-348

From:
Joseph Romilly
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 April 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 276
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-349

From:
Barham Zinoke
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 July 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 370
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-350

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 August 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 168
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-351

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
29 August 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177 169
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-352

From:
Joseph Romilly
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
29 August 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 277
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-354

From:
Joseph George Cumming
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
2 October 1850
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 104
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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