From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[Dec? 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:
Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
1 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 15
Summary:
Discusses share dealings and investment matters.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
5 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.98)
Summary:
Discusses illustrations [for Living Cirripedia 1 (1851)]. Mentions drawings by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
13 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/38)
Summary:
Discusses his account. Mentions reduction in rent due to agricultural conditions.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
21 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/41)
Summary:
Asks his opinion concerning possible investment. Asks about possible land sale to Mr Mason.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
James Dwight Dana
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[before 29 Dec 1850]
Source of text:
Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
Summary:
Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
29 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Smith College Library
Summary:
Discusses attachment of antennae in larvae of cirripedes.
Asks for information about how parasitic cirripedes are attached to host.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project