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DCP-LETT-1294

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
19 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1311

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[26 Jan – Mar 1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses mollusc specimens and related notes sent to AH. Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses various cirripede species.

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-1378

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1850]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1391

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
19 Feb [1851]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Comments on JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Asks if JdeCS can lend him specimens of fossil Balanidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1433

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
8 June [1851]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks whether he can borrow from Joshua Alder an article [Sven Ludvig Lovén, "Ny art af Cirripedia Alepas squalicola", Ofers. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Förh. 1 (1844): 192–4] in order to have the plate copied. Asks to borrow additional specimen of Ibla.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1495

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
25 Dec [1852]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.

Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.

Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1498

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
29 Jan [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1500

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
10 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1501

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
12 Feb [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1505

From:
Albany Hancock
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
25 Feb 1853
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1509

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
30 Mar [1853]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1580

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
24 Aug [1854]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Can AH spare Alcippe specimens for British Museum?

C. S. Bate has found Alcippe off Plymouth.

Discusses returning specimens to AH.

Owes to AH the discussion of powers of excavation of Verruca in Living Cirripedia [vol. 2 (1854)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1751

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
31 Aug [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks for WBT’s offer to supply carcasses of good poultry breeds. Encloses list [missing] of birds in which he is interested.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1754

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[13 Sept 1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Would welcome any distinct breed of poultry and would be glad to have any good pigeons.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1782

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
16 Nov [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is going to London on Thursday [22nd] and would like to call on WBT on Friday.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1788

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
[2 Dec 1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Raises queries resulting from their meeting. "All fish come to my net in regard to variation."

Is acquiring pigeons and poultry and would be particularly grateful for any of the rarer breeds that WBT could supply.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1791

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
6 Dec [1855]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Variation in cats.

Is comparing skeletons of poultry.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1813

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
1 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Will attend the Philoperisteron [pigeon fanciers’ club] if he possibly can.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1820

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Bernhard Tegetmeier
Date:
14 Jan [1856]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Is attempting to get skins of poultry from all quarters of the world. Wants to inspect poultry collections.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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