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DCP-LETT-1466F

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

DCP-LETT-1469

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

DCP-LETT-1470

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

DCP-LETT-1472

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

DCP-LETT-1472A

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)].

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