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DCP-LETT-1319

From:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
6 and 7 Apr 1850
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10)
Summary:

Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.

JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.

Argument with Falconer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1319F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
7 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Thanks for the information about a possible investment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1320

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
8 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 228)
Summary:

Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1315

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[13? Apr 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1336

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

CD wants Lepadidae drawings [for Fossil Cirripedia] harder, with lines of growth more distinct; he wants no shading or similarity to lithography, which he thinks has harmed natural history. He realises that mutilated specimens may make accuracy difficult.

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-1382F

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection)
Summary:

Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1357

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[before 28 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89)
Summary:

Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1322

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
28 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses possibility of providing B. J. Sulivan with a vessel for fossil hunting in Patagonia.

Asks RO to ask Mrs Dixon about borrowing cirripede specimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1323

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[May 1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76)
Summary:

Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1324

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

The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1325

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

Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1326

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
9 May [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32)
Summary:

Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.

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-1328

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johan Georg Forchhammer
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives
Summary:

Thanks JGF for geological information.

Steenstrup’s cirripede specimens have been of great use and interest. CD has now described 33 fossil pedunculated cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1329

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Royal Geographical Society
Date:
20 May [1850]
Source of text:
Royal Geographical Society
Summary:

Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1330

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

Describes progress in illustration of fossil cirripede specimens. Thanks for answers to questions. Comments on hermaphroditism. Describes his discovery of parasitic male cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1331

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
22 May [1850]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 200)
Summary:

Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1333

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

Urges dispatch on illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia]; CD’s MS has been ready for some time and all depends on JdeCS. Suggests a way to hasten progress.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1334

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Higgins
Date:
27 May [1850]
Source of text:
Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35)
Summary:

Discusses his account.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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