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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[1852–60]
Source of text:
Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3)
Summary:

Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Asks JS to compare cirripede specimens with those of Lorenz Spengler to establish comparative nomenclature.

Requests reference to article describing Xenobalanus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:
[before 10 Jan 1852]
Source of text:
Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette , no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22
Summary:

Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Forbes
Date:
23 Jan [1852?]
Source of text:
Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin , QH365 .O2 1859)
Summary:

Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester
Date:
30 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56)
Summary:

The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
15 Feb [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Sending first volumes on Living and Fossil Cirripedia. Solicits JDD’s opinion, especially on sexual relations of Scalpellum and Ibla, on which he "hardly expect[s] to be believed".

Sends unusual crustacean specimen collected by B. J. Sulivan.

The Sporillus sent by JDD is a very curious species of Acasta [see Living Cirripedia 2: 319].

Asks JDD to identify and give geographical distribution of pieces of coral in which some cirripedes are imbedded.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 3
Summary:

Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
29 Feb [1852]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 226)
Summary:

Sends presentation copy of Fossil Cirripedia.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
7 Mar [1852]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 80)
Summary:

Congratulates and "condoles" with WDF on a tenth child.

On education, he has not had courage to break away from "the old stereotyped stupid classical education"; has sent William to Rugby.

The first Ray Society volume [Living Cirripedia] is finished.

Has joined in a society to prosecute violators of the act against use of children in climbing chimneys.

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
14 Mar 1852
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:

Asks for details about the discoveries of gold in Australia.

Has published one book on barnacles [1851].

Sulivan has just returned from his cattle farm in the Falklands.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Parsons, 3d earl of Rosse, Lord Rosse, Lord Oxmantown; Royal Society of London
Date:
16 Mar [1852]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (RR2: 226)
Summary:

Referee’s report on paper by Daniel Sharpe ["On foliation and cleavage", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Apr 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 107: 66–7
Summary:

Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.

Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.

[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]

Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Crawford Hyndman
Date:
16 Apr [1852]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.101)
Summary:

Thanks GCH for Balanus specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Parker
Date:
5 May [1852]
Source of text:
Stationers’ Company (Records Pt XI (III) J. W. Parker: autograph letters from authors (TSC/1/F/07/22))
Summary:

As an author of some scientific works CD is of the opinion that each bookseller should settle, each for himself, the retail price.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
8 May [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.

Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.

JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.

Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.

Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society
Date:
17 May [1852]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
19 June [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/54)
Summary:

Discusses his account and rent reduction. Comments on agricultural prices.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
17 July [1852]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/188)
Summary:

Gratified by what RO says about his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is really interested in; finds the "mere systematic part infinitely tedious"; but will be surprised if he is ever proved wrong on the males of Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
29 July [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/3)
Summary:

Thanks JH for his exposition of the effects of falling grain and lifestock prices on farm income.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope
Date:
30 July [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1))
Summary:

Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].

Contributor:
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