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The Charles Darwin Collection
The Darwin Correspondence Project is publishing letters written by and to the naturalist Charles Darwin (1809–1882). Complete transcripts of letters are being made available through the Project’s website (www.darwinproject.ac.uk) after publication in the ongoing print edition of The Correspondence of Charles Darwin (Cambridge University Press 1985–). Metadata and summaries of all known letters (c. 15,000) appear in Ɛpsilon, and the full texts of available letters can also be searched, with links to the full texts.
If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
Thanks GRW for his sympathy on his ill health. Feels better lately.
Sends thanks to G. P. Deshayes for his advice.
Asks what "original work" GRW has begun so his name will become better known.
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.
Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.
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.
Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.
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].
Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.
Discusses WED’s affairs and events at Down.
Writes of the benefits of reading.
CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.
Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.
Objects to early deadline for submitting manuscript [of Living Cirripedia 2 (1854)]. Discusses illustrations by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].
Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.
Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.
Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.