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DCP-LETT-396

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[28 Dec 1837]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD sorry RO is not well and fears work on Macrauchenia may have contributed. Thinks new name very good. Other details concerning publication [of Zoology, pt 1, no. 1].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-491

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Edwin Charles Prince
Date:
21 Jan [1839]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks what generic and subgeneric name John Gould has given to the goatsuckers of the U. S. [for Birds].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-615

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
[26 Jan 1842]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

CD relates that Robert Brown is anxious to have [C. M.] Leman[n] elected librarian of the Linnean Society and urges JSH to come to vote for him. CD joins in the request.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-652

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward; Geological Society of London
Date:
[14 Jan 1843]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks SPW to have obsidian specimens and book [Dieudonné de Gratet de Dolomieu, Voyage aux îles de Lipari (1783)] ready when he comes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-848

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
[26 Apr – Aug 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for Gabriel Bibron’s address. He has two questions about snakes in S. America for which he wants answers, as he is preparing a new edition of his Journal of researches.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-860

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[May 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Asks for list of the Bahia Blanca fossil shells.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-933

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[3 Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Suggests location of lost shell specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-934

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby
Date:
[9? Dec 1845]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses GBS’s completion of his descriptions of fossil shells for the appendix to South America.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-967

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Smith, Elder & Co
Date:
30 Mar [1846]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Discusses publication of his book [South America].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1150

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[4 Feb 1848]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Has been invited to contribute geological instructions [to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849); Collected papers 1: 227–50]. Asks RO whether remarks on coral reefs appertain to geology rather than zoology.

Looks forward to visit by Owens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1166

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[26 Mar 1848]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes his new microscope and its advantages for dissecting. Suggests RO might discuss topic [in his contribution to J. F. W. Herschel, ed., Manual of scientific enquiry (1849)].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1210

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:
[Dec 1848–9]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Obliged for drawings and coins. Cannot tell what the stone is.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1228

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[24 Feb 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks RO for his note on Conchoderma hunteri [see Living Cirripedia 1: 153].

Has been very unwell; has lost four-fifths of his time. Will go to Malvern to try the water-cure for his vomiting, which regular doctors cannot cure.

Has done some pretty homological work with cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1253

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
[21 Sept 1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Describes his research on cirripedes.

Comments on paper by AH ["Notice of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Asks to borrow specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1256

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
29 Sept [1849]
Source of text:
Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Summary:

Thanks AH for specimens of Alcippe.

Discusses capacity of Lithotrya to bore its own hole. Believes Arthrobalanus also makes cavities this way.

Asks to see paper on cirripedes by Sven Lovén.

Comments on paper by AH [see 1253].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

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
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