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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 Aug [1841-2]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/207)
Summary:

Sends elephant tooth from Africa. Suggests it may be interesting in light of his [mistaken] memory of Cuvier’s opinion about tusk brought from Peru by Humboldt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
21 [June 1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/204)
Summary:

B. J. Sulivan has just arrived with fossil bones from Patagonia. Wants to arrange meeting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
25 Nov [1846]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/201)
Summary:

Asks to borrow specimens of sessile cirripedes from Museum of Royal College of Surgeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[6 Mar 1847]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192)
Summary:

A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.

Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.

Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.

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Darwin Correspondence Project