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DCP-LETT-1144

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Jan–June 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6)
Summary:

Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.

Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1355

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198)
Summary:

About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];

would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1356

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199)
Summary:

Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1361

From:
Ray Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[after 7 Oct 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:

"Resolved that the Secretary be requested to ask Mr. Darwin if he would agree to the publication of his work [Living Cirripedia] in parts."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1366A

From:
Ray Society
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
[4–6 Nov 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:

In response to CD’s letter [see 1364] the Secretary is instructed to request that he send a specimen plate to James de Carle Sowerby for estimate of cost.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1383

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
[Jan 1851]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 57)
Summary:

Is coming tomorrow to see Lorenz Spengler on cirripedes [Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758)] and the remaining sessile cirripedes in the collection. Has finished Balanus.

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-1484

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
17 July [1852]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/188)
Summary:

Gratified by what RO says about his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is really interested in; finds the "mere systematic part infinitely tedious"; but will be surprised if he is ever proved wrong on the males of Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1178

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Gould
Date:
1 August 1853
Source of text:
Natural History Museum Library and Archives, London The Correspondence of John Gould (1804-1881) Z MSS GOU A (Box 5)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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Faraday2728a

From:
Michael Faraday
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
13 September 1853
Source of text:
NHM L. MS/WAT
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
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HENSLOW-1179

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Gould
Date:
29 Sept 1853
Source of text:
Natural History Museum Library and Archives, London The Correspondence of John Gould (1804-1881) Z MSS GOU A (Box 5)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1549

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Ray Society
Date:
[before 23 Jan 1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY)
Summary:

"A letter having been read from Mr. Darwin stating that the MSS of the 2nd vol. of his work [Living Cirripedia] extended to 900 pages it was resolved that the whole be published in one volume."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1564

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Edward Gray
Date:
28 Mar [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 56)
Summary:

Asks for parts of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror [1844–75].

Asks about the arrangement of cirripedes at the Museum; hopes JEG will keep CD’s names.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1570

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
6 May 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (1909: 9)
Summary:

CD expresses his inability to accept the view that the Hippuritidae are in any way a connecting link between the oysters and the barnacles.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1180

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Gould
Date:
21 June 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum Library and Archives, London The Correspondence of John Gould (1804-1881) Z MSS GOU A (Box 5)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
Text Online

HENSLOW-1181

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
John Gould
Date:
26 June 1854
Source of text:
Natural History Museum Library and Archives, London The Correspondence of John Gould (1804-1881) Z MSS GOU A (Box 5)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1583

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
29 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
Summary:

Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1641

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
4 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/29)
Summary:

A page of [unspecified] text is missing from a parcel of material received from GRW.

CD "hopes and expects to live to see Carboniferous, & perhaps even Silurian, mammifers!"

Has several questions to ask whenever they meet.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1767

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
20 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 15)
Summary:

Would be useless to insert CD’s name [on masthead of Entomologists’ Annual] since he does not work on insects.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1853

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Henry Tibbats Stainton
Date:
13 Apr [1856]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 16)
Summary:

Thanks HTS for Entomologist’s Weekly Intelligencer [no. 2, 12 Apr 1856]. Agrees with his remarks [in "Why did Mr Westwood get the Royal Medal?"], but explains that a change in rules for awarding the Royal Medal has been made. Earlier it had to be given for publications in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, which explains small number of entomologist recipients.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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