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.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[8 June 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94)
Summary:
Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.
Personal and social comment.
Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[8] June [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
13 June [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 115
Summary:
On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.
Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.
Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz
Date:
15 June [1850]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 275)
Summary:
Thanks LA for presentation copy of his book, Lake Superior [1850].
Comments on species of cirripedes sent by LA and A. A. Gould.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
15 June [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:
Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
8 July [1850]
Source of text:
Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (17 June 2010)
Summary:
Has received plates. Gives instructions for scale and arrangement of engravings.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Downie
Date:
14 July [1850]
Source of text:
Autos & Autos (dealers) (Catalogue 839)
Summary:
An enquiry about the availability, size, and cost of cork-lined boxes for entomological collections.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Harris
Date:
6 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Reports on the fossil cirripedes sent him; several are new, some are "elegant".
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell
Date:
8 [Aug 1850]
Source of text:
Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019)
Summary:
Has not completed description of NTW’s Loricula. Wants permission to have it figured by James de Carle Sowerby. Does NTW have other fossil cirripedes?
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[12 or 19] Aug 1850
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD asks for the return of a specimen [to be used for illustration in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)], so he can do some identifying.
J. S. Bowerbank has again asked on behalf of the Palaeontographical Society what progress has been made.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
27 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
Returns one figure and sends two minute new species to be figured [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. "Pray observe how time slips by."
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[28 Aug or 4 Sept] 1850
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD insistently requests JdeCS to have all rough illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] done in time for next Council meeting of the Palaeontographical Society.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker
Date:
31 Aug [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.95)
Summary:
Expresses sympathy to MSH on W. J. Hooker’s illness.
Will send his comments on Hodgson’s physico-geographical memoir ["On the physical geography of the Himalayas", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 18 (1849): 761–88] directly to him.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD has received an enormous lot of Scanian and Copenhagen cirripede fossils, some of which he thinks may be better than those sent to JdeCS earlier; asks him to delay engraving foreign specimens until CD has time to go through the new lot.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
1 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:
Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.
Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
4 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77)
Summary:
Has heard that Louis Agassiz maintains the doctrine of several species of man "much I daresay to the comfort of the slave-holding southerners".
Homeopathy excites his wrath even more than clairvoyance.
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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society
Date:
10 Sept [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.96)
Summary:
Discusses woodcut illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia, vol. 1]. Wants species descriptions to be in both Latin and English.
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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].
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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.
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- Darwin, C. R.
- Hooker, J. D.257
- Lyell, Charles65
- Tegetmeier, W. B.62
- Fox, W. D.58
- Huxley, T. H.57
- Darwin, W. E.41
- Henslow, J. S.41
- Gray, Asa37
- Lubbock, John36
- Higgins, John31
- Murray, John (b)30
- Watson, H. C.28
- Dana, J. D.22
- Blyth, Edward20
- Gardeners’ Chronicle19
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- Eyton, T. C.17
- Hancock, Albany17
- Darwin, Emma16
- Wedgwood, Emma16
- Fitch, Robert15
- Ray Society15
- Woodward, S. P.15
- Waterhouse, G. R.14
- Lankester, Edwin13
- Darwin, E. A.12
- Steenstrup, Japetus12
- Bosquet, J. A. H. de11
- Bowerbank, J. S.11
- Owen, Richard11
- Bentham, George10
- Harcourt, E. W. V.10
- Lubbock, J. W. (b)9
- Royal Society of London9
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