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From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.23
Summary:

Letter of thanks and good wishes.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Agnes Baillie
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[29 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 3.12
Summary:

Packet and documents are ready. When can he call?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
C. Gubbins
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[6 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.150
Summary:

Has just received the Admiralty Manual. Thinks it would be helpful if some tables for determining the heights of mountains by means of the barometer could be included in the next edition. Points out an error in the Nautical Almanac.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Charles Hay Cameron
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[23 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 5.145
Summary:

Has addressed a letter to the East India Company, which has raised a storm.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Charles Stuart
To:
Ferdinand von Mueller
Date:
10 April 1850
Source of text:
RB MSS M36, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.For a summary of this letter see Daley (1935) pp. 136-7, where it is misdated 16 April 1850
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:
[Apr 1850 – Jan 1851]
Source of text:
Wellcome Collection
Summary:

Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.

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

Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Thomas Salt
Date:
7 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018
Summary:

Thanks for the information about a possible investment.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Augustus Addison Gould
Date:
8 Apr [1850]
Source of text:
Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 228)
Summary:

Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Robert Fitch
Date:
[13? Apr 1850]
Source of text:
Norwich Castle
Summary:

Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James de Carle Sowerby
Date:
[13 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Summary:

CD wants Lepadidae drawings [for Fossil Cirripedia] harder, with lines of growth more distinct; he wants no shading or similarity to lithography, which he thinks has harmed natural history. He realises that mutilated specimens may make accuracy difficult.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Albany Hancock
Date:
15 [Apr 1850]
Source of text:
J. Hancock (1886): 258–9
Summary:

Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
James Scott Bowerbank
Date:
[24 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection)
Summary:

Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Richard Owen
Date:
[before 28 Apr 1850]
Source of text:
American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89)
Summary:

Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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
Text Online
From:
Edward Cowper
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
1 April 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project
From:
Francis Beaufort
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[26 April 1850]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0069; Reel 1087 (ACC: Hydrographic Office Letter Book)
Summary:

Encloses note from accountant general of Navy about payment of Cape telescope. Send receipt to FB to complete transaction.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Friedrich Eduard Beneke
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[11 April 1850]
Source of text:
RS:HS 4.64
Summary:

Letter to accompany a gift of the first part of FB's popular psychology work.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[1 April 1850]
Source of text:
RGO 6.143.9
Summary:

Comments on a number of possibilities for the post at Trivandrum [see JH's 1850-3-20].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Text Online
From:
Harriet Martineau
To:
Michael Faraday
Date:
13 April 1850
Source of text:
IEE MS SC 2
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Faraday Project