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DCP-LETT-1462

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
22 Nov [1851]
Source of text:
Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 14)
Summary:

Proposes to send THH vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1463

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
11 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A85–A88
Summary:

Sends cirripede specimens for Ipswich Museum.

Asks how much a village fireworks display would cost.

Comments on the need in education for good habits of expression and accurate observation instead of making "wretched Latin verses".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1465

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss
Date:
21 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Asks to borrow FK’s specimen of Conia rosea. Would like to know if FK collected it himself [in S. Africa] or was given it, because CD has a closely allied species from Australia, which surprises him. [See Living Cirripedia 2: 335.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1465F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
24 Dec 1851
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asking Thomas Salt to inform the Executors of Captain Muckleston that he wishes to foreclose the mortgage.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1466

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam White
Date:
26 Dec 1851
Source of text:
Testimonials of Adam White, F.L.S., Assistant in the Zoological Department, British Museum [1854], p. 15 (National Library of Scotland, 3.2043(6))
Summary:

Testimonial letter expressing CD’s high opinion of AW’s zoological attainments.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1466G

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
26 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Asks Thomas Salt to accept the repayment of a mortgage from Captain Muckleston’s executors, if Josiah Wedgwood agrees.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1466H

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Richardson
Date:
30 Dec [1851]
Source of text:
Louisiana State University Libraries, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (James E. Murdoch Papers, Mss. 667)
Summary:

Will send JR’s box of cirripedes on Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-2107

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
15 June [1851]
Source of text:
Gilman 1899, p. 310
Summary:

Thanks for note of 13 May and tracings of the "curious Bopyrid".

Is astonished at amount of work JDD does and frightened it will cause ill-health, such as CD has experienced.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP94

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
2 Sept 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/74)
Summary:

Discusses Roderick Impey Murchison’s paper on the Silurian in the south of Scotland.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP95

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
25 Sept 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/75)
Summary:

Describes his Highland tour.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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KEMP96

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
18 Nov 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/76)
Summary:

His plans to marry.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond

RS-MM-000492

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
30 January 1851
Source of text:
MM/9/72, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000493

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
4 March 1851
Source of text:
MM/9/73, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-000494

From:
Edward Joshua Cooper
To:
George Biddell Airy
Date:
16 April 1851
Source of text:
MM/9/74, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001088

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Snow Harris
Date:
26 November 1851
Source of text:
MM/16/124, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001094

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
23 May 1851
Source of text:
MM/16/131, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001124

From:
John Frederick William Herschel
To:
William Henry Sykes
Date:
13 November 1851
Source of text:
MM/16/164, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001597

From:
John Wrottesley, 2nd Baron Wrottesley
To:
George Clerk
Date:
18 July 1851
Source of text:
MM/21/36, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

SOMERVILLE301

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
2 Mar 1851
Source of text:
HS 16.356, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse

SOMERVILLE302

From:
John Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
10 Apr 1851
Source of text:
HS 19.183, RS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
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