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DCP-LETT-1531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
6 Sept 1853
Source of text:
DAR 146: 7
Summary:

Thanks for rare Balanus specimens. Asks about their source.

Comments on GJ’s book [Terra Lindisfarnensis (1853)].

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Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1530

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
6 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D18)
Summary:

Will give his support to a school for the poor to be a memorial to the late Sir John Lubbock.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1365

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 [Sept 1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97)
Summary:

Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 150
Summary:

Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.

Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.

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DCP-LETT-1533

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
27 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Admires JDD’s work on Crustacea, corals, and geology.

Commends young John Lubbock to his attention. Hopes JDD can give him encouragement; if he can resist his "great wealth, business, and rank, he may do good work in Natural History".

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