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DCP-LETT-587F

From:
George Edmundson Bearpark
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
12 Feb 1841
Source of text:
Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/6/126)
Summary:

Requesting information about membership of the Geological Society of London.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-596

From:
Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 30 Mar 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 205.3: 279
Summary:

LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-598

From:
John Stevens Henslow
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
19 Apr 1841
Source of text:
DAR 166: 176
Summary:

Reports observations on the behaviour of captive harvest mouse and dormouse. When descending sticks mouse uses its tail like a prehensile-tailed monkey.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-598A

From:
William C. Redfield
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
May 1841
Source of text:
Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2) p. 239)
Summary:

Is sending through John Blunt a copy of the last geological report of the state of New York along with a short paper on the tornado that passed through the state of New Jersey in June 1835.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-604

From:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. 16 July 1841]
Source of text:
DAR 98: A1–2
Summary:

Regrets not seeing CD before leaving on trip [to the U. S.]. CD’s move from London will be a privation for CL.

Returns charts on coral reefs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-608F

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[17 Sept 1841?]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0456/1)
Summary:

CD and [Emma Darwin] are invited to "a holiday musical evening".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-610

From:
John Abberley; Robert Waring Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
18 Oct 1841
Source of text:
DAR 162: 78
Summary:

The family gardener reports on seeds he has gathered. RWD transmits the letter.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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