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DCP-LETT-1547

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Mackintosh; Frances Emma Elizabeth (Fanny) Wedgwood
Date:
18 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Thanks for writing about E. A. Darwin’s illness. Will never forget the comfort she was [when Anne Darwin died, 1851].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1578

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Lucy T. Eisenberg (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks JAHdeB for his present of two volumes [Description des Entomostracés fossiles des terrains tertiaires de la France et de la Belgique (1852) and "Les Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)]. CD was interested in the remarks on geographical distribution of the Entomostraca.

CD’s second volume for the Ray Society [Living Cirripedia] is finished but not yet published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1578A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
16 Aug [1854-8]
Source of text:
DAR 224
Summary:

Should like to examine the correspondent’s Madeira cirripedes but is too much occupied with other subjects of natural history.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1579

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Patterson
Date:
21 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Praeger 1935 , p. 713
Summary:

Has found a half dozen [cirripede] specimens belonging to William Thompson and a few MS notes. Asks for instructions for sending them to RP.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1579A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Hannah Louisa Bernard; Hannah Louisa Stutchbury
Date:
22 Aug 1854
Source of text:
Matthews 1982, p. 262
Summary:

Arranges to return a collection of cirripedes which belongs to her husband [Samuel Stutchbury].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
24 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can AH spare Alcippe specimens for British Museum?

C. S. Bate has found Alcippe off Plymouth.

Discusses returning specimens to AH.

Owes to AH the discussion of powers of excavation of Verruca in Living Cirripedia [vol. 2 (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1581

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Aug 1854
Source of text:
DAR 205.9: 384
Summary:

JDH and F. W. Binney identify Calamites specimens as pith casts. They are cryptogams related to, but higher than, Lycopodiaceae and contradict progression.

Insects found in coal.

Lyell says Stonesfield slate marsupials are actually placentals.

JDH reading Alexander Braun on individuality ["Das Individuum der Pflanze in seinem Verhältniss zur Species", Abh. K. Akad. Wiss. Berlin (Phys. Kl.) (1853): 19–122].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1582

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Price
Date:
26 [Aug 1854]
Source of text:
DAR 147: 272
Summary:

Discusses specimen of Balanus crenatus.

Sorry JP’s children are ill.

Will come to Liverpool if well [for meeting of BAAS].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1583

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
29 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
Summary:

Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-000538

From:
Adolph Theodor Kupffer
To:
Edward Sabine
Date:
26 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/10/62, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001140

From:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
To:
William Parsons, 3rd Earl Rosse
Date:
4 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/17/5, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

RS-MM-001406

From:
Edward Sabine
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
5 August 1854
Source of text:
MM/19/3, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

Herschel1109

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
George Gabriel Stokes
Date:
[27 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.10.5
Summary:

Comments on color as a sensation, and on GS's thoughts on 'lavender rays.'

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel11800

From:
Thomas Maclear
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 August 1854]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.160
Summary:

The Cape Government is to employ a geologist to survey the mineral resources. Copper mines are all the rage at the moment and the value of shares is increasing rapidly. No further news of David Livingstone. Mounting of the transit circle is progressing.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13164

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
1854-8
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.32; Reel 1055
Summary:

Policy regarding redemption of mutilated silver coins.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13165

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[15 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.33; Reel 1055
Summary:

Heavy demand for silver coins by Commissariat Service in Turkey. Mint supply was recently exhausted. Ask Treasury to borrow more from Bank [of England].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13166

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[24 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.34; Reel 1055
Summary:

Melters' contract officially ended on 7 Mar. [1851], but they continued to profit from Mint until 31 July. Therefore, compensation for Robert Mushet should begin on 31 July Returns paper on Turkish coins. Mr. Stickney's value for grain of pure gold is accurate.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13167

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[28 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.35; Reel 1055
Summary:

Letter from Heaton's [Birmingham mint]. Delay in production of copper coins for New Brunswick. Coins ordered by G. Baillie for Ceylon are ready.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13168

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Charles Edward Trevelyan
Date:
[29 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0484.36.1; Reel 1055
Summary:

Describes new machinery used in coining process and duties of workmen and clerks.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel13369

From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[Charles Edward Trevelyan]
Date:
[19 August 1854]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0598 & -0705; Reel 1089
Summary:

Reports assayers's analyses of Chinese imitations of Spanish coin sent to Treasury by John Bowring [governor of Hong Kong].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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