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DCP-LETT-1383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[Jan 1851]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 57)
Summary:

Is coming tomorrow to see Lorenz Spengler on cirripedes [Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758)] and the remaining sessile cirripedes in the collection. Has finished Balanus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1385

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Mumford
Date:
1 Jan 1851
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D17)
Summary:

Receipt for £3 5s, proceeds of a lecture, for the Down Coal and Clothing Club.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1386

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
21 Jan [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD is pleased with plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]; most corrections need only a touch. Requests revises soon and asks how much he owes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1387

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
24 Jan [1851]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Collection of fossil cirripedes to be returned. Would RF be willing to donate duplicates to the British Museum?

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1439

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Palaeontographical Society
Date:
[before 31 Jan 1851]
Source of text:
British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes)
Summary:

Read a letter from CD. Resolved that labels be printed for the backs of each number of monograph printed and forthcoming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1388

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
10 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD likes the plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] except pl. I [Scalpellum], which calls for several revisions; he sees that not all corrections were made, but assumes they called for too extensive changes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1389

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
13 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD appreciates JdeCS’s care. Sends specimens, noting points to be observed. He adds that the figures which have been most troublesome are those of which drawings were made [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1390

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
17 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Summary:

Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.

Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
19 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Comments on JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Asks if JdeCS can lend him specimens of fossil Balanidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1392

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
3 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Cirripede fossil specimens returned.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1393

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Harris
Date:
4 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
The British Library (Add MS 42579: 233–4)
Summary:

Has finished the last proof of his monograph [Fossil Lepadidae] and returns WH’s specimens. Has named two new species from the collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1395

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
4 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Asks EL to request the Council [of the Ray Society] to permit him to have nine plates [for vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] instead of eight (of which two were to be in colour) and a tenth plate if he pays for it himself.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1395F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wickham Flower
Date:
[11 Mar 1851?]
Source of text:
Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009)
Summary:

Thanks for specimens. Will return books on Monday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1075

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Wickham Flower
Date:
23 Mar [1851]
Source of text:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Summary:

Thanks JWF for [cirripede] fossils; one species seems from a new formation.

Regrets that his health makes it necessary to decline an invitation.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[27 Mar 1851]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78a)
Summary:

Sends condolences to WDF on the death of his father. Has brought his daughter [Anne] to J. M. Gully for the water-cure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1382

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[c. Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 100: 164
Summary:

Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1397

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Apr 1851
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Fossil cirripedes specimens being returned. Will send a copy of monograph [Fossil Cirripedia]. Discusses work on recent cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1398

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker
Date:
5 Apr [1851]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen
Summary:

Returns fossil cirripede specimens to WD, Friedrich Adolph Roemer, R. A. Philippi, and F. C. L. Koch.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1384

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
Kinnordy MS (private collection)
Summary:

Detailed critique of CL’s A manual of elementary geology [3d ed. (1851), used in editing 4th ed. (1852)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1399

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin
Date:
[17 Apr 1851]
Source of text:
DAR 210.13: 8
Summary:

Reports the state of Anne Darwin’s health.

Contributor:
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