From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
1 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 117
Summary:
Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[5 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[6 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
RF’s specimens have arrived.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
12 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.
Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].
Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Palaeontographical Society
Date:
[before 22 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes)
Summary:
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
24 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.
Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.
Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.
Discusses boring species of cirripedes.
Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.
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.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
