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DCP-LETT-1382F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection)
Summary:

Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1383

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:
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DCP-LETT-13831

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet
Date:
3 June [1855]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Accepts invitation for the 20th.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1384

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

DCP-LETT-13843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
9 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends thanks for a note and returned drawing.

He is sending more text.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13844

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

DCP-LETT-1385

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

DCP-LETT-13854

From:
Hensleigh Wedgwood
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[13–19 Mar 1859]
Source of text:
DAR 205.2: 262
Summary:

HW has confirmed the report in the Times of a shower of fish (minnows and sticklebacks) that fell on the Wedgwood colliery.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1386

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

DCP-LETT-13867A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
7 Dec [1855-7]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 93 (photocopy)
Summary:

Concerning specimens he wants collected in the Azores.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1387

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
24 Jan [1851]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Collection of fossil cirripedes to be returned. Would RF be willing to donate duplicates to the British Museum?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13870

From:
John Brodie Innes
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 8 Feb – Aug 1855]
Source of text:
DAR 163: 5
Summary:

Provides another case of apparently pure bred pointers producing litter with one setter puppy. Correspondent was told that this occurred in several litters; gives names of owners and others who can corroborate the information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13872

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:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1388

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
10 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD likes the plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] except pl. I [Scalpellum], which calls for several revisions; he sees that not all corrections were made, but assumes they called for too extensive changes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-13889F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Walmisley Baxter
Date:
[after June 1857]
Source of text:
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation (Archives, Autograph Letters and Manuscripts Collection)
Summary:

Requests a quart of distilled water for photography to be sent in a clean bottle via the postman on the following day.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
13 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD appreciates JdeCS’s care. Sends specimens, noting points to be observed. He adds that the figures which have been most troublesome are those of which drawings were made [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13892

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Sharpey
Date:
[1853–72?]
Source of text:
Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London)
Summary:

If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.

Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
19 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Comments on JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Asks if JdeCS can lend him specimens of fossil Balanidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
3 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cirripede fossil specimens returned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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