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DCP-LETT-1521

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

Will quote CSB on discovery of Alcippe lampas.

Hopes CSB continues to look for Verruca on limestone.

Discusses use of CSB’s larvae illustrations [for Living Cirripedia].

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DCP-LETT-1528

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

Sends thanks for recent specimen, which gave him conclusive evidence that Verruca acts only on calcareous rocks.

Asks for a reference on carbonic acid.

Is glad CSB progresses in research on spider-like Crustacea.

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DCP-LETT-1365

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
10 [Sept 1853]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97)
Summary:

Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.

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DCP-LETT-1553

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
18 Feb [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.108)
Summary:

Comments on CL’s plan to visit Tenerife.

Discusses inclination of strata on islands and around mountains.

Personal affairs of several scientists.

Visit by Henslow.

Notes publication by Hooker [Himalayan journals (1854)].

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HENSLOW-1146

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Ross
Date:
16 March 1854
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
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HENSLOW-1147

From:
John Gould
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
26 June 1854
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-1243

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
David Thomas Ansted
Date:
4 September 1854
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library Misc. MS. Collection
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1602

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Nov [1854]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.109)
Summary:

Asks JSH to inquire about drift-wood at Kerguelen Land.

Hooker’s observation on similarity of Kerguelen plant species to those of Tierra del Fuego strikes CD as a great anomaly, so he is searching for an answer, "however improbable".

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DCP-LETT-1626

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
10 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.110)
Summary:

Discusses views of Daniel Sharpe on foliation and cleavage. Recalls his own previous discussion [in South America].

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1630

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
14 Jan [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.111)
Summary:

Has found a house on Baker Street to take for a month.

Mentions Daniel Sharpe’s study of the Grampians.

Association of various metamorphic rocks and relationship of their foliation to their dip and strike. Discusses foliation of schists and its origin. Comments on fluidity of gneiss and schists.

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DCP-LETT-1633

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[21 Jan – 11 Feb 1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.112)
Summary:

Relationship of schists to alternating beds of slate in western Tierra del Fuego and the Chonos Islands.

Comments on Sharpe’s theory of curved cleavage planes.

Example of metamorphosis in a "clay-slate porphyry region". Importance of previous lines of cleavage and stratification in foliation of metamorphosed rock.

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HENSLOW-1148

From:
James Scott Bowerbank
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
5 February 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1648

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Henfrey
Date:
17 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Can AH give information about D. A. Godron, "De l’espèce et des races" [Mem. Soc. Sci. Lett. & Arts Nancy (1847): 182, 239–88]? CD unable to locate reference.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1658

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Arthur Henfrey
Date:
31 Mar [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Thanks AH for seeking reference. If AH cannot find Godron [see 1648] it is hopeless. Thanks for reference to C. F. Hornschuch.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1679

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
8 May [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.113)
Summary:

Mentions his paper ["Transportal of erratic boulders", Collected papers 1: 218–27]. Discusses ice-borne rock. Reference to unpublished paper on icebergs [?"Power of icebergs to make grooves", Collected papers 1: 252–5]. Remarks on scoring by icebergs. Comments on judgment of theories by Geological Society.

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HENSLOW-1126

From:
J. S. Henslow
To:
Unknown
Date:
14 May 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
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HENSLOW-1149

From:
R. I. Murchison
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
6 June 1855
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society Library The Scientists Collection I 509.L56
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1831

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury
Date:
14 [July 1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.621)
Summary:

CD has more specimens of Helix pomatia.

Thanks for Lepidoptera book.

Invites JL to dinner.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1727

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Hunt
Date:
22 July [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Mentions RH’s book on light [Researches on light in its chemical relations, 2d ed. (1854)]. Asks about coloured glass used in experiments on plants.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1769

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Campbell Eyton
Date:
25 Oct [1855]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.114)
Summary:

Unable to give information on Mrs Shaw of Crayford.

Mentions TCE’s interest in dog- and pig-skeleton researches.

Interested in seeing the Eyton Museum.

Reminisces about entomology [at Cambridge].

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