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DCP-LETT-1480A

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

DCP-LETT-1481

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

DCP-LETT-1482

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].

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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