From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
1 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.6: 5
Summary:
Discusses WED’s affairs and events at Down.
Writes of the benefits of reading.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
8 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A21–A24
Summary:
CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
15 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30)
Summary:
Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
19 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.104)
Summary:
Objects to early deadline for submitting manuscript [of Living Cirripedia 2 (1854)]. Discusses illustrations by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Wigley
Date:
21 Mar 1853
Source of text:
Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30)
Summary:
Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
24 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.105)
Summary:
Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
30 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:
Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
31 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A52
Summary:
Would like to meet JSH in London.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
