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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, A. E.
Date:
[4 or 11 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Thorley, C. A.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[14 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 5
Summary:

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Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Thorley, C. A.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[16 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 6
Summary:

No summary available.

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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, F. E. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[19 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 15
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, F. E. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[22 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 23
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Wedgwood, F. E. E.
Date:
  [22 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 24
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Wedgwood, F. E. E.
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[23 April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 29
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Langton, Charlotte
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
[late April 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 38
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Catherine
To:
Darwin, Emma
Date:
1 May [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 41
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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