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DCP-LETT-1337

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 June 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94)
Summary:

Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.

Personal and social comment.

Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1338

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[8] June [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1339

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 115
Summary:

On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.

Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.

Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1341

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:
15 June [1850]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 275)
Summary:

Thanks LA for presentation copy of his book, Lake Superior [1850].

Comments on species of cirripedes sent by LA and A. A. Gould.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1342

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
15 June [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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