From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
29 [July 1853]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 83)
Summary:
Sympathises with WDF’s tribulations.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
30 July [1853]
Source of text:
Onondaga County Public Library (Autograph Manuscripts collection Box 1 Folder 44)
Summary:
Bartholomew James Sulivan’s address is Guildford. Please to have CD’s copy [of Owen 1853] left at the Athenaeum Club or the Geological Society of London.
He and his family are in Eastbourne but the weather has been poor.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
10 Aug [1853]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 85)
Summary:
Thanks WDF for writing so soon after his misfortunes, and again expresses sympathy.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Christian Karl Josias Bunsen, Freiherr von Bunsen
Date:
16 Aug [1853]
Source of text:
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York (Heineman Collection MA 6511)
Summary:
Thanks correspondent for forwarding microscopical specimens, a present from C. G. Ehrenberg.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
30 Aug [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Sends thanks for recent specimen, which gave him conclusive evidence that Verruca acts only on calcareous rocks.
Asks for a reference on carbonic acid.
Is glad CSB progresses in research on spider-like Crustacea.
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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)].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
6 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D18)
Summary:
Will give his support to a school for the poor to be a memorial to the late Sir John Lubbock.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 [Sept 1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97)
Summary:
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
Contributor:
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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.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
27 Sept [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Admires JDD’s work on Crustacea, corals, and geology.
Commends young John Lubbock to his attention. Hopes JDD can give him encouragement; if he can resist his "great wealth, business, and rank, he may do good work in Natural History".
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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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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
10 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]
and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
10 [Oct 1853]
Source of text:
Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984)
Summary:
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
11 Oct [1853]
Source of text:
The Royal Society (LUB: D19)
Summary:
Gives his opinion on some difficulties that have arisen in connection with the establishment of the school for the poor at Down.
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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].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Syms Covington
Date:
21 Oct 1853
Source of text:
Sydney Mail , 9 August 1884, p. 254
Summary:
Comments on SC’s trip to the gold diggings. CD is most interested in Australia and reads every book about it that he can find. Sends news of former Beagle shipmates FitzRoy, Sulivan, Mellersh, and of Fuegia [Basket].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
5 Nov [1853]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 125
Summary:
Edward Sabine’s official letter announcing CD’s receipt of Royal Society Medal left him cold. JDH’s informal one moved him.
Applauds JDH for supporting John Lindley.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
2–3 Dec [1853]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/66)
Summary:
Arranges meeting. Discusses his account.
Contributor:
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
6 Dec [1853]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
24 Dec 1853
Source of text:
DAR 143: 129
Summary:
Comments on MS of JAHdeB’s work ["Crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
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