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DCP-LETT-1167F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[2 Apr 1848]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Hyde 77: 2. 82. 1)
Summary:

Apologises for length of notes of advice for microscopic work.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

Herschel12335

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[14 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.192
Summary:

Has now completed his manuscript for the Admiralty Manual. Runs to 90 pages. To what Office shall he forward it?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12336

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[17 July 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.193
Summary:

Has been condensing his contribution to the Admiralty Manual, now reduced to forty pages; comments on this. The Westminster fever delayed the Admiralty manuscript.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

Herschel12337

From:
Sir Richard Owen
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 November 1848]
Source of text:
RS:HS 13.194
Summary:

Received the seven leaves of his manuscript from [John?] Murray yesterday. Comments on matters relating to the Admiralty Manual and RO's contribution.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project

DCP-LETT-1089

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[1849?]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[24 Feb 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks RO for his note on Conchoderma hunteri [see Living Cirripedia 1: 153].

Has been very unwell; has lost four-fifths of his time. Will go to Malvern to try the water-cure for his vomiting, which regular doctors cannot cure.

Has done some pretty homological work with cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-340

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
30 August 1849
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1231

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Jan – 23 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD regrets the trouble RO has had about C. G. Ehrenberg’s parcel.

He is reading On the nature of limbs [1849] with uncommon interest and admires the way Owen worked out the toes.

Also has read On parthenogenesis [1849] with great interest.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2253

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
14 January 1850
Source of text:
BL add MS 39954, f.138
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project

DCP-LETT-1357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[before 28 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89)
Summary:

Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
28 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses possibility of providing B. J. Sulivan with a vessel for fossil hunting in Patagonia.

Asks RO to ask Mrs Dixon about borrowing cirripede specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

RS-MM-001621

From:
Baden Powell
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
27 May 1850
Source of text:
MM/21/61, Royal Society
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Royal Society

DCP-LETT-1355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198)
Summary:

About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];

would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199)
Summary:

Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Faraday2381

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
8 February 1851
Source of text:
RI MS F1 D02
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-361

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 September 1851
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 225
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1484

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
17 July [1852]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/188)
Summary:

Gratified by what RO says about his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is really interested in; finds the "mere systematic part infinitely tedious"; but will be surprised if he is ever proved wrong on the males of Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-366

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 September 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 226
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1526F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
30 July [1853]
Source of text:
Onondaga County Public Library (Autograph Manuscripts collection Box 1 Folder 44)
Summary:

Bartholomew James Sulivan’s address is Guildford. Please to have CD’s copy [of Owen 1853] left at the Athenaeum Club or the Geological Society of London.

He and his family are in Eastbourne but the weather has been poor.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-379

From:
Richard Owen
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1 December 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 227
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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