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DCP-LETT-1300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 117
Summary:

Hooker’s imprisonment.

Birth of Leonard Darwin.

Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1301

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[5 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1302

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[6 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

RF’s specimens have arrived.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
12 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.

Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].

Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Palaeontographical Society
Date:
[before 22 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes)
Summary:

Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
24 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.

Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.

Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.

Discusses boring species of cirripedes.

Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1305A

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
25 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 185: 104
Summary:

Is sending JSB sponges.

He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]

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DCP-LETT-1306F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker
Date:
3 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Antiquariat Inlibris (dealers)
Summary:

Explains that he is working on recent and fossil Cirripedia, and asks if WD can aid him with specimens of Roemer’s Pollicipes species.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1306

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
3 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Has lost a good many days and will need another fortnight to finish the pedunculate fossil cirripedes. The Palaeontographical Society will publish the fossil species. "If I was but better in health, I shd work quicker."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1307

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Henry Lardner Woodd
Date:
4 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 148: 375
Summary:

Comments on paper by CHLW.

Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.

"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1310

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].

Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1309

From:
Abraham Clapham
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
8 Mar 1850
Source of text:
DAR 161: 150
Summary:

Results of crosses in Phlox.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1308

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.

Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1312

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library
Summary:

Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.

Sends stamps for specimen.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1313

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
17 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1314

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
21 Mar [1850]
Source of text:
Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection)
Summary:

Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]

Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.

Contributor:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-13807

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[Apr 1850 – Jan 1851]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1318

From:
William Masters
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Apr 1850
Source of text:
DAR 77: 168–9
Summary:

Replies to CD’s questions regarding impregnation of peas, beans, cabbages, and other plants by insects, wind, etc.

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DCP-LETT-1317

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
3 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.

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