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DCP-LETT-1306F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker
Date:
3 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Antiquariat Inlibris (dealers)
Summary:

Explains that he is working on recent and fossil Cirripedia, and asks if WD can aid him with specimens of Roemer’s Pollicipes species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
3 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has lost a good many days and will need another fortnight to finish the pedunculate fossil cirripedes. The Palaeontographical Society will publish the fossil species. "If I was but better in health, I shd work quicker."

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DCP-LETT-1307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Lardner Woodd
Date:
4 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 148: 375
Summary:

Comments on paper by CHLW.

Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.

"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].

Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1309

From:
Abraham Clapham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 161: 150
Summary:

Results of crosses in Phlox.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.

Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Summary:

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
21 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]

Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.

Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."

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