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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
3 Dec [1849]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Asks to borrow specimen of Pollicipes from the Chalk.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
6 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Asks to borrow some more cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
10 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks him for sending fossil cirripede specimens. Unfortunately one was broken in transit. Asks if James de Carle Sowerby may draw specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
15 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Discusses fossil cirripede specimens from RF’s collection. Comments on problems of describing their valves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[23 Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. "Yours is incomparably the finest collection in the world of fossil Secondary cirripedes."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[28 Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses RF’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
1 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Mentions illness.

Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[5 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[6 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

RF’s specimens have arrived.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[13? Apr 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
5 May [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
3 Nov [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Explains that fossil cirripede specimens have not been returned because J. de C. Sowerby has been monstrously delayed with the engravings. Members of Palaeontographical Society have urged Sowerby to complete task.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
11 Nov [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress in illustrating fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[Dec? 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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