From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
2 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/2/6)
Summary:
Discusses rent reduction and possibility of a lease.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Ransome
Date:
5 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing / John Hay Whitney Medical Library (William Finkelstein autograph collection 1747–1979 (MS 19th cent+) vol. 2)
Summary:
Forwards an order for £1 1s in response to a circular from Ipswich Museum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
27 Aug [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 4
Summary:
Thanks for his letter; hopes he is managing all right [at Rugby?].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
8 Sept [1852]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:
Knows no one in Buenos Aires. Suggests sites in South America where Auguste Bravard can find fossils.
Ray Society has delayed distribution [of Living Cirripedia (1851)].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
21 Oct [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 17
Summary:
Informs JW of his intention to sell his N. W. Railway shares.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
24 [Oct 1852]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 81)
Summary:
News of his health; has been well of late, but cannot stand excitement. Hereditary weakness is another of his bugbears.
At work on cirripedes – "I hate a Barnacle as no man ever did before."
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
20 Nov 1852
Source of text:
V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 1019)
Summary:
A statement of payments made by trustees to CD and by CD to trustees for the years 1851 and 1852.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
23 Nov 1852
Source of text:
DAR 146: 6
Summary:
Recommends GJ for Government pension.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
25 Nov [1852]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Thanks JDD for information.
Discusses Acasta sporillus.
Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].
Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.
Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.
Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Ripon College, Lane Library
Summary:
At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.
Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
18 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58)
Summary:
Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.
Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.
Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
31 Dec [1852-3]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Summary:
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project