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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[Jan–Aug 1848]
Source of text:
John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection)
Summary:

Thanks him for Balanus specimens. Comments on his findings. A large Acasta in the wet state would be valuable. Asks JSB to mention his work to J. T. Quekett at the College of Surgeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
24 Feb [1849]
Source of text:
Formerly Leeds City Libraries; for sale at Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002)
Summary:

Thanks him for cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
19 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Jan – 7 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.91)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for specimens of fossil Balanidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
25 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 104
Summary:

Is sending JSB sponges.

He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].

Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Summary:

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection)
Summary:

Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.96)
Summary:

Discusses woodcut illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia, vol. 1]. Wants species descriptions to be in both Latin and English.

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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
25 June [1851]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:

Asks to re-examine specimen of Scalpellum. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia] by Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society
Date:
7 July [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.99)
Summary:

Asks to borrow woodcut from Palaeontographical Society for use in Living Cirripedia, vol. 1.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
28 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

G. B. Sowerby’s plates [for Living Cirripedia] are ready for the printer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
29 Mar [1859]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:

Requests receipt for payments to Society in 1858–9.

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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Aug 1864
Source of text:
DAR 160: 262
Summary:

Cannot find his Chalk or Gault formation Pollicipes. Inquires how CD sent these back.

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From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4 Nov 1867]
Source of text:
DAR 160: 261
Summary:

Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.

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