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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Harris
Date:
6 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Reports on the fossil cirripedes sent him; several are new, some are "elegant".

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell
Date:
8 [Aug 1850]
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019)
Summary:

Has not completed description of NTW’s Loricula. Wants permission to have it figured by James de Carle Sowerby. Does NTW have other fossil cirripedes?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[12 or 19] Aug 1850
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD asks for the return of a specimen [to be used for illustration in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)], so he can do some identifying.

J. S. Bowerbank has again asked on behalf of the Palaeontographical Society what progress has been made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
27 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Returns one figure and sends two minute new species to be figured [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. "Pray observe how time slips by."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[28 Aug or 4 Sept] 1850
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD insistently requests JdeCS to have all rough illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] done in time for next Council meeting of the Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker
Date:
31 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.95)
Summary:

Expresses sympathy to MSH on W. J. Hooker’s illness.

Will send his comments on Hodgson’s physico-geographical memoir ["On the physical geography of the Himalayas", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 18 (1849): 761–88] directly to him.

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Darwin Correspondence Project