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DCP-LETT-1287

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:
[3 Jan 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.90)
Summary:

Discusses CL’s paper, "On craters of denudation" [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): 207–34], which "will be a thorn in the side of É[lie] de B[eaumont]". Notes evidence from Galapagos overlooked by CL. Mentions other examples of craters.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1288

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
6 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Asks to borrow some more cirripede specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-13843

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr
Date:
9 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Sends thanks for a note and returned drawing.

He is sending more text.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1290

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
10 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks him for sending fossil cirripede specimens. Unfortunately one was broken in transit. Asks if James de Carle Sowerby may draw specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1291

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
15 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Discusses fossil cirripede specimens from RF’s collection. Comments on problems of describing their valves.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1292

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Darwin Fox
Date:
[17 Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 75)
Summary:

Account of the birth of Leonard Darwin, during which he administered the chloroform to Emma.

Continues the water-cure.

Has begun work on fossil cirripedes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1293

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Stevens Henslow
Date:
17 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 93: A96–A97
Summary:

Announces birth of his fourth son, Leonard.

Contributor:
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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:
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DCP-LETT-1295

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[23 Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. "Yours is incomparably the finest collection in the world of fossil Secondary cirripedes."

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1296

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Jan – 7 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.91)
Summary:

Thanks JSB for specimens of fossil Balanidae.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1297

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:
25 Jan [1850]
Source of text:
Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Summary:

Thanks JS for fossil cirripedes. Discusses the specimens. Sends thanks to J. G. Forchhammer for 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:
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DCP-LETT-1298

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[28 Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses RF’s collection.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1299

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
1 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Mentions illness.

Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1300

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:
3 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
DAR 114: 117
Summary:

Hooker’s imprisonment.

Birth of Leonard Darwin.

Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.

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DCP-LETT-1301

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[5 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project

DCP-LETT-1302

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[6 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

RF’s specimens have arrived.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1303

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
12 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.

Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].

Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1304

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Palaeontographical Society
Date:
[before 22 Feb 1850]
Source of text:
British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes)
Summary:

Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.

Contributor:
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DCP-LETT-1305

From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Dwight Dana
Date:
24 Feb [1850]
Source of text:
Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Summary:

Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.

Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.

Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.

Discusses boring species of cirripedes.

Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.

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