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HENSLOW-1157

From:
Thomas Bell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
11 August
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1159

From:
Connop Thirlwall
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
Undated
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1148

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Smith of Jordanhill
Date:
28 Jan [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD asks if he may have the use of the cirripedes JS collected in Portugal. He will need to break up or make a section of at least one of each species.

Expresses admiration for JS’s paper on Malta ["On recent depressions in the land", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 3 (1847): 234–40], with its striking demonstration of the change of level between land and water there discovered.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1155

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[5 or 6] Feb 1848
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.72)
Summary:

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum and problems of classification. Encloses a note of thanks to be laid before the Trustees [see 1153].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1154

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[6 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.69)
Summary:

Invites GRW to a dinner party with other scientists.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1156

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Crawford Williamson
Date:
12 Feb [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD cannot find the lagoon-island mud that WCW asked about, but he sends other geological specimens he hopes will be interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1186

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[16 June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.73)
Summary:

Comments on Ann Susan Horner’s escape in a dangerous incident at sea.

Compares addresses by William Buckland and CL, delivered at recent meeting of the Geological Society.

Discusses the views on Glen Roy in Chambers’ Ancient sea-margins [1848].

Speculates that Chambers wrote Vestiges [of creation (1844)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1181

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[21? June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.75)
Summary:

Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1136

From:
Frederick Pollock
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
24 June 1848
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1187

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
28 [June 1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.74)
Summary:

Mentions returning borrowed book by Camillo Ranzani.

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from British Museum. "In truth never will a mountain in labour have brought forth such a mouse as my book on the Cirripedia. It is ridiculous the time each species takes me."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1199

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henri Milne-Edwards
Date:
1 Sept [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.76)
Summary:

Describes his cirripede work. Asks whether HM-E can arrange for him to borrowspecimens, especially of species described in Dumont d’Urville, Voyage of"Astrolabe" [1830–2]. Lists species that interesthim.

Compliments HM-E on his Crustacés [1834–40].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1114

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Thomas Quekett; Royal College of Surgeons of England
Date:
7 Sept [1848]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.62)
Summary:

Asks about collection of mollusc specimens he had lent to Richard Owen.

Asks about seeing cirripede collection of the College.

Comments on larva of Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1041

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Harriet Hotham; Harriet Lubbock
Date:
[Dec 1848–9]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.70)
Summary:

Belittles the loss of a book borrowed from CD.

Acknowledges cheque in payment for purchase of microscope for John Lubbock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1212

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
[Dec 1848–9]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.77)
Summary:

Thanks JWL for the use of a schoolroom.

Arranges to meet JWL’s son [John] to discuss use of microscope.

Mentions illness.

Thanks JWL for his paper ["Shooting stars", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 (1848): 81–8, 170–2; 35 (1849): 356–7].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1167

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
W. H. Smyth
Date:
22 December 1848
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library William Henry Smyth Papers B Sm98
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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