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DCP-LETT-1311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[26 Jan – Mar 1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses mollusc specimens and related notes sent to AH. Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses various cirripede species.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1316

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850
Source of text:
The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.
Summary:

AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.

Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1321

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
15 [Apr 1850]
Source of text:
J. Hancock (1886): 258–9
Summary:

Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1327

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 May [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93)
Summary:

Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1433

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
8 June [1851]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether he can borrow from Joshua Alder an article [Sven Ludvig Lovén, "Ny art af Cirripedia Alepas squalicola", Ofers. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Förh. 1 (1844): 192–4] in order to have the plate copied. Asks to borrow additional specimen of Ibla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1437

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
22 June [1851]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/4)
Summary:

Thanks AH for assistance and Joshua Alder for his kindness. Ibla specimens offered would not aid him.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.

Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.

Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1497

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Summary:

Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.

Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.

AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1498

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
29 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1504

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
J. Hancock 1886, p. 275
Summary:

Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1505

From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1853
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1509

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

DCP-LETT-1580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
24 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can AH spare Alcippe specimens for British Museum?

C. S. Bate has found Alcippe off Plymouth.

Discusses returning specimens to AH.

Owes to AH the discussion of powers of excavation of Verruca in Living Cirripedia [vol. 2 (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1332

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 May [1856]
Source of text:
J. Hancock 1886, pp. 277–8
Summary:

Wants accurate information on "the economy of nature". Is interested in how far the struggle with other species checks the northern range of any species.

Thanks John Storey for information.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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