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DCP-LETT-1500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103)
Summary:

Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].

Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1503

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
18 Feb 1853
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 20
Summary:

Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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DCP-LETT-1504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
J. Hancock 1886, p. 275
Summary:

Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.

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Darwin Correspondence Project
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