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DCP-LETT-1447

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
30 July [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends completed MS [vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] with instructions for the printers; reviews number of plates and woodcuts, and offers to pay for extras and for excess corrections, if they occur. Hopes the Council [of the Ray Society] will print his second volume at the end of the ensuing year.

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DCP-LETT-1448

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
[7 Aug 1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD returns home Saturday and would like his servant to take his MS [of Living Cirripedia] to Adlard that morning; he does not have a copy and would on no account re-undergo the labour he has spent on it.

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DCP-LETT-1449

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
[9 Aug 1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Wants his MS [of Living Cirripedia] taken to Adlard by a trustworthy person and wants to be told when and how it was done; leaves a note for Adlard that he wants proof on the 17th or 18th.

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DCP-LETT-1455

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
28 Sept [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

G. B. Sowerby’s plates [for Living Cirripedia] are ready for the printer.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1458

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Daniel Sharpe
Date:
16 Oct [1851]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks DS for writing about his research on foliation and cleavage. Discusses nature of slate and metamorphic schists.

Makes suggestions for the paper DS is preparing for the Royal Society and raises questions for his consideration; CD hopes he can attend the Society meeting when the paper is read ["On foliation and cleavage of Scotland", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].

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HENSLOW-1141

From:
H. T. De la Beche
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
7 January 1852
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-1142

From:
John Curtis
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
19 January 1852
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-1143

From:
J. E. Gray
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
18 February 1852
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1479

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Crawford Hyndman
Date:
16 Apr [1852]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.101)
Summary:

Thanks GCH for Balanus specimens.

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HENSLOW-1144

From:
Nathaniel Wallich
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
8 November 1852
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-1125

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
25 November 1852
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1464

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Unidentified
Date:
19 Dec [1852 or 1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100)
Summary:

Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].

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HENSLOW-1145

From:
Edward Forbes
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1853
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1502

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
15 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103)
Summary:

Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].

Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1507

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:
19 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.104)
Summary:

Objects to early deadline for submitting manuscript [of Living Cirripedia 2 (1854)]. Discusses illustrations by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1508

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
24 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.105)
Summary:

Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.

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DCP-LETT-1511

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Spence Bate
Date:
1 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.

Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1512

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Andrew Crombie Ramsay
Date:
9 Apr [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106)
Summary:

Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1517

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
Date:
7 June [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.102)
Summary:

Discusses JAHdeB’s drawing of a Verruca.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1518

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
7 June [1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107)
Summary:

Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].

Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.

Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].

Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.

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