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DCP-LETT-657

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Mar 1843 – 15 May 1846]
Source of text:
Michael H. McHugh (private collection)
Summary:

Invites the Owens to stay at Down, joining Falconer and a few others.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday1544

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
January 1844
Source of text:
Owen (1894), 1: 258-9
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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Faraday1545

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
8 January 1844
Source of text:
RI MS F1 K32
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

Herschel12330

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 February 1844]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.187
Summary:

At the request of Mr. Clift, acknowledges JH's communication of the case of the Mare with the intestinal calculi. The specimens are very acceptable.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-959

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[21 Apr 1846]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.48)
Summary:

Asks to visit RO to talk about mammifers of the [Rio] Plata.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001618

From:
Richard Owen
To:
Charles Robert Bree
Date:
24 April 1846
Source of text:
MM/21/58, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-984

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
21 [June 1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204)
Summary:

B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1033

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/201)
Summary:

Asks to borrow specimens of sessile cirripedes from Museum of Royal College of Surgeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1044

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1847?]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (MMS)
Summary:

Asks to meet RO to get his opinion on zoological points.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1061

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
12 Feb [1847]
Source of text:
The Royal College of Surgeons of England (RCS-MUS/3/3/9)
Summary:

F. J. Muñiz has offered fossil bones collected around Buenos Aires to the Royal College of Surgeons. He believes he can complete their Megatherium skeleton and provide other specimens. CD feels he should be encouraged in his work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-938

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[6 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192)
Summary:

A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.

Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.

Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13833

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Nov 1847–51]
Source of text:
John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Summary:

"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …

What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13834

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
23 Dec [1847-54]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12331

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 December 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.188
Summary:

Introducing Benjamin Travers, who intends visiting the Cape of Good Hope. Would welcome advice from JH.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12332

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 December 1847]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.189
Summary:

Has received JH's request regarding the Admiralty Manual. Will be pleased to contribute a section on collecting specimens.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12333

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 January 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.190
Summary:

The packet from the Admiralty was not the manuscript; that will follow speedily. Regrets any anxiety caused.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[4 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has been invited to contribute geological instructions [to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849); Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Asks RO whether remarks on coral reefs appertain to geology rather than zoology.

Looks forward to visit by Owens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[26 Mar 1848]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes his new microscope and its advantages for dissecting. Suggests RO might discuss topic [in his contribution to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12334

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[31 March 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.191
Summary:

Will resume work on his 'Instructions' for the Admiralty Manual after the conclusions of his lectures. Will be able to forward it before the end of May.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-997

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Apr? 1848]
Source of text:
R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 209
Summary:

Pleased at RO’s praise of Coral reefs.

Has read with very great interest RO’s "Report on the archetype" [Rep. BAAS 16 (1846): 169–340]. RO should give name to every letter or number in his woodcuts.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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