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To J. E. Gray   18 December 1847

Summary

Seeks permission from the Trustees of the British Museum to borrow the cirripede specimens in the public collection. Explains his intention to produce a monograph of the Cirripedia.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  18 Dec 1847
Classmark:  British Museum (Central Archive ‘Original Papers’, vol. XXXVIII)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1139

To J. C. Ross   31 December 1847

Summary

Asks JCR to collect cirripedes for him on forthcoming expedition [to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Clark Ross
Date:  31 Dec 1847
Classmark:  The Royal Society (Sa: 384)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1140

To John Edward Gray   [18 December 1847]

Summary

Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  [18 Dec 1847]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1146

To William Baxter    2 October [1847?]

Summary

Reorders six 2–oz bottles with corks.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Baxter
Date:  2 Oct [1847?]
Classmark:  Lehigh University Libraries Special Collections
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13775

To Charles Lyell   [1847 or 1848]

Summary

Replies to note from CL asking about views of glaciers.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [1847 or 1848]
Classmark:  DAR 146: 329
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13825F

To Richard Owen   [November 1847–51]

Summary

"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …

What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  [Nov 1847–51]
Classmark:  John K. Lattimer (private collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13833

To Richard Owen    23 December [1847–54]

Summary

Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  23 Dec [1847-54]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13834

To Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe   5 May [1847]

Summary

Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe
Date:  5 May [1847]
Classmark:  Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1569

To Richard Owen   [6 March 1847]

Summary

A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.

Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.

Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  [6 Mar 1847]
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-938
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