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DCP-LETT-1514

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Henry Huxley
Date:
11 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13)
Summary:

Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.

Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.

Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1515

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
15 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 124
Summary:

Discusses the development and morphology of Verruca.

Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-371

From:
William Whewell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
22 April 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 356
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1379

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III
Date:
25 [Apr 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 21
Summary:

Discusses the [CD/Emma] marriage trust.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1380

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
Date:
26 [Apr 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 210.10: 19, 22
Summary:

Writes concerning marriage trust.

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DCP-LETT-1516

From:
Erasmus Alvey Darwin
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26 Apr 1853
Source of text:
DAR 262.11: 13
Summary:

Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1677

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:
29 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 310
Summary:

Discusses installation of watering system. Sent question to Gardeners’ Chronicle but, through EC’s kindness, superfluously.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1520

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
18 June 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 126
Summary:

Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. Comments on various specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-678

From:
F. J. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
16 July 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 51
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1523

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
17 July 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 127
Summary:

Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1524

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
24 July [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 249: 31
Summary:

Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-602

From:
George Johnston
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
August 11 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 213
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1531

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Johnston
Date:
6 Sept 1853
Source of text:
DAR 146: 7
Summary:

Thanks for rare Balanus specimens. Asks about their source.

Comments on GJ’s book [Terra Lindisfarnensis (1853)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1532

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
25 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 150
Summary:

Further response to MS of introductory essay to Flora Novae-Zelandiae.

Disbelieving in permanence of species has made little difference to CD in his barnacle work.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1529

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
[9 Oct 1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 149
Summary:

Detailed response to MS of introductory essay to [The botany of the Antarctic voyage, pt II] Flora Novae-Zelandiae [1853–5]. CD will curse JDH when, in a year or two, he is at his species book, for "having put so many hostile facts so confoundedly well".

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DCP-LETT-1537

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
13 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 143: 128
Summary:

Discusses publication of Fossil Cirripedia.

Comments on paper by JAHdeB ["Les crustacés fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Limbourg", Verh. Uitg. Comm. Geol. Beschrijving & Kaart Ned. 2 (1854): 11–137].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-679

From:
F. J. Bunbury
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
20 October 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 52
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-265

From:
W. H. Miller
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
25 October 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8176: 101
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-372

From:
S. V. Wood
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
29 October 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 361 & 361(ii)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-373

From:
Leonard Jenyns
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
3 November 1853
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 189
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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