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DCP-LETT-1144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Jan–June 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6)
Summary:

Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.

Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198)
Summary:

About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];

would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199)
Summary:

Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1361

From:
Ray Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Oct 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:

"Resolved that the Secretary be requested to ask Mr. Darwin if he would agree to the publication of his work [Living Cirripedia] in parts."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1366A

From:
Ray Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–6 Nov 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:

In response to CD’s letter [see 1364] the Secretary is instructed to request that he send a specimen plate to James de Carle Sowerby for estimate of cost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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