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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[February 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 1
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 2
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 3
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 July? 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 4
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 18 August 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 5
Summary:
No summary available.
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Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[23 November 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 6
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
Date:
30 July [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1))
Summary:
Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1852-3]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1852–60]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3)
Summary:
Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:
Asks JS to compare cirripede specimens with those of Lorenz Spengler to establish comparative nomenclature.
Requests reference to article describing Xenobalanus.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Jan 1852]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22
Summary:
Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
23 Jan [1852?]
Source of text:
Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin , QH365 .O2 1859)
Summary:
Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester
Date:
30 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56)
Summary:
The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
15 Feb [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Sending first volumes on Living and Fossil Cirripedia. Solicits JDD’s opinion, especially on sexual relations of Scalpellum and Ibla, on which he "hardly expect[s] to be believed".
Sends unusual crustacean specimen collected by B. J. Sulivan.
The Sporillus sent by JDD is a very curious species of Acasta [see Living Cirripedia 2: 319].
Asks JDD to identify and give geographical distribution of pieces of coral in which some cirripedes are imbedded.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 3
Summary:
Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
29 Feb [1852]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 226)
Summary:
Sends presentation copy of Fossil Cirripedia.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 Mar [1852]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 80)
Summary:
Congratulates and "condoles" with WDF on a tenth child.
On education, he has not had courage to break away from "the old stereotyped stupid classical education"; has sent William to Rugby.
The first Ray Society volume [Living Cirripedia] is finished.
Has joined in a society to prosecute violators of the act against use of children in climbing chimneys.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
14 Mar 1852
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:
Asks for details about the discoveries of gold in Australia.
Has published one book on barnacles [1851].
Sulivan has just returned from his cattle farm in the Falklands.
Contributor:
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From:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Apr 1852
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:
His difficulties in answering CD’s letter of 3 Jan [1852] [see 1469]. There is no Lepas mitra in the Lorenz Spengler collection. He undertakes to compare the specimens of Balanus sent by CD with those of Spengler.
He thanks CD for his book [Fossil Cirripedia (1851)].
His work with Professor Forchhammer and Mr Worsaae.
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