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DCP-LETT-1472A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester
Date:
30 Jan [1852]
Source of text:
DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56)
Summary:

The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0372

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[February 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 1
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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HENSLOW-634

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 7
Summary:

Discusses advice given to JSH on nux vomica and advice given to Bowerbank by JSH on leech cocoons. Compliments Henslow on his comparative kindness. Sends waste prints for JSH and the Ipswich Museum.

Discusses campaign to secure a comfortable position with a government pension for an associate, possibly Robert Edmond Grant.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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KEMP97

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
6 Feb 185[2]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/77)
Summary:

He has been very busy since the sudden death of his employer shortly before his own marriage.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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HENSLOW-362

From:
H. T. De la Beche
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 132
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-716

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 153a
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-717

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 February 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 153b
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-718

From:
Henry Moseley
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 February 1852?
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 153c
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1474

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
24 [Feb 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 3
Summary:

Is glad WED has made a good beginning [at Rugby?].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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FL-0373

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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FL-0374

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[c. March 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 3
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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HENSLOW-363

From:
William Clark
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
14 March 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177:92
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1496

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[Apr 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 107: 66–7
Summary:

Questions on variation in nature: taxa varying in one region but not another. Variation between vs within species. Rarity of variation in important organs within a species. G. R. Waterhouse’s views on variation in highly developed organs, which CD relates to variation in rudimentary organs.

Asks for cases of obligate self-fertilising plants.

[CD annotation proposes using the Steudel Nomenclator botanicus (1821–4) to determine if variable species occur in genera with many species.]

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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KEMP98

From:
William Stevenson
To:
William Kemp
Date:
29 May 185[2]
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library (MS Add. 10252/78)
Summary:

Describes more geological rambles in the Lammermuirs.

Contributor:
Ruth Cramond
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HENSLOW-667

From:
C. E. Broome
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
21 June 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 40
Summary:

Thanks JSH for invitation to visit but cannot say if able to do so. Asks for JSH to send him any fungi of interest. Invites JSH to visit him at Elmhurst, near Batheaston, and comments that Leonard Jenyns also lives in the area.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-364

From:
William Longman
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
10 July 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 219
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FL-0375

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[15 July? 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 4
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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HENSLOW-365

From:
Leonard Horner
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 August 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 173
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-677

From:
F. J. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 August 1852
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 50
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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FL-0376

From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, W. E.
Date:
[after 18 August 1852]
Source of text:
DAR 219.1: 5
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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