From:
Adolphe Quetelet
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
28 Jan 1850
Source of text:
MSQ 1 / 6, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Alexander von Humboldt
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[19 January 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 10.69
Summary:
Queries regarding JH's star lists. Sending magnetic information from A. T. Kupffer. Regarding the distribution of nebulae.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[21 January 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.256
Summary:
Regarding the delicate case of priority of investigation. Quotes example of Henry Warburton and John Brinkley.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Augustus De Morgan
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[25 January 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 6.257
Summary:
Further regarding the Gregorian calendar and comments on some of the questions involved in its interpretation.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Thomas Bell
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
4 January 1858
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 21
Summary:
Thanks JSH for presents and sends New Year’s greetings.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Thomas Bell
To:
Thomas Bell
Date:
14 January 1850
Source of text:
MM/21/50, Royal Society
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Royal Society
Text Online
From:
P. P. Carpenter
To:
J. S. Henslow
Date:
1855
Source of text:
Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8177: 62
Summary:
No summary available.
Contributor:
Henslow Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Erasmus Darwin
Date:
[1850–4?]
Source of text:
Christie’s, London (dealers) (17 November 1995)
Summary:
Two letters have arrived for WED.
Joseph has had two teeth out.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
William Jackson Hooker
Date:
[Jan 1850]
Source of text:
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 201)
Summary:
Thanks WJH for information about J. D. Hooker; CD was very anxious to hear something about his safety.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[Jan – 23 Mar 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:
CD regrets the trouble RO has had about C. G. Ehrenberg’s parcel.
He is reading On the nature of limbs [1849] with uncommon interest and admires the way Owen worked out the toes.
Also has read On parthenogenesis [1849] with great interest.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
George Robert Waterhouse
Date:
[Jan–June 1850]
Source of text:
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6)
Summary:
Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.
Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Adam White
Date:
[Jan–Mar 1850]
Source of text:
Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library)
Summary:
Requests AW to ask Arthur Adams, who is going on a polar expedition to Lancaster Sound, to collect cirripedes.
Asks location of "Cape Rivers".
Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
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
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
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
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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