To Francis Boott 20 August 1848
Summary
CD will write to A. A. Gould for aid. Thanks for sympathy and assistance about chloroform.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Boott |
Date: | 20 Aug 1848 |
Classmark: | James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (website viewed 7 February 2012) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1195 |
From J. E. Gray 26 August 1848
Summary
Is sorry that any person has misunderstood his intentions. JEG read his papers on cirripedes at the Zoological Society without intending to interfere with CD’s work; he merely wished to record his old observations, made before CD commenced his study, and thought that by so doing he was helping CD. [See "Description of a new species of Anatifa" and "On Thaliella", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1848): 44.]
Author: | John Edward Gray |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Aug 1848 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/254-255) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1196 |
To J. E. Gray 29 August [1848]
Summary
It had been suggested to CD that JEG intended to anticipate some of his work on the Cirripedia. CD doubted this because JEG had suggested that CD commence the work and has assisted throughout; however, CD sought assurances regarding JEG’s intentions as he wished that "what little novelty there yet remained in the subject, should be the reward of my work". CD apologises for having spoken to JEG on the subject and will communicate JEG’s assurances to those who had expressed their opinions regarding JEG’s intentions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | 29 Aug [1848] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/256-257) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1197 |
To Charles Lyell [24 September 1848]
Summary
Congratulations on CL’s knighthood.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [24 Sept 1848] |
Classmark: | The University of Edinburgh Centre for Research Collections (Lyell collection AIL Coll 203 B) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1198 |
To Henri Milne-Edwards 1 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his cirripede work. Asks whether HM-E can arrange for him to borrowspecimens, especially of species described in Dumont d’Urville, Voyage of"Astrolabe" [1830–2]. Lists species that interesthim.
Compliments HM-E on his Crustacés [1834–40].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
Date: | 1 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1199 |
To Augustus Addison Gould 3 September [1848]
Summary
Describes his research on cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens. Comments on previous work on the subject.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
Date: | 3 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 224) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200 |
From William Thompson 29 September 1848
Summary
Concerning the measurements of Balanus specimens with respect to growth.
Author: | William Thompson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 29 Sept 1848 |
Classmark: | Living Cirripedia (1854): 272–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1200A |
To William Hellier Baily 5 October 1848
Summary
Send thanks for informing him of barnacles and asks that they be sent, directed to him, to the Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Hellier Baily |
Date: | 5 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (12 November 1963) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1201 |
To J. D. Hooker 6 October [1848]
Summary
CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.
CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 6 Oct [1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 112a |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1202 |
From J. D. Hooker 13 October 1848
Summary
Hugh Falconer’s misbehaviour.
Waiting out rains at Brian Hodgson’s.
Will make botanical transverse section of Himalayas from plains to snow.
Arrangements to pass Sikkim Rajah’s territory.
No evidence of glacial or diluvial action in sub-Himalayan mountains. No evidence of detrital coal formation.
Hodgson’s replies to CD on introduced species and hybrids.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 13 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India letters 1847–51: 112–14 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1203 |
To ? [15 or 22 October 1848]
Summary
Thanks for note and enclosure. Has written to [David?] Landsborough to say dried specimen was just what he wanted. Would like some more in spirits.
Very unwell.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [15 or 22] Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1204 |
To Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 22 October 1848
Summary
Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 22 Oct 1848 |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1205 |
From Emily Catherine Darwin [12 November 1848]
Summary
Gives details of the illness of R. W. Darwin.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [12 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1206 |
From Catherine Darwin [13 November 1848]
Summary
Informs CD of the death of their father and the funeral arrangements.
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [13 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | V&A / Wedgwood Collection (MS W/M 279) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1207 |
To Emma Darwin [17 November 1848]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
Date: | [17 Nov 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 32 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1208 |
To Maria Hooker [17 December 1848]
Summary
Returns letters [from her son, J. D. Hooker, in India].
Asks that B. H. Hodgson’s zoological pamphlets be sent to him at Athenaeum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
Date: | [17 Dec 1848] |
Classmark: | McGill University Library, Department of Rare Books |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1209 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Obliged for drawings and coins. Cannot tell what the stone is.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1210 |
To John Higgins 6 December [1848]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions death of his father and his own inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 6 Dec [1848] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/23) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1211 |
To J. W. Lubbock [December 1848–9]
Summary
Thanks JWL for the use of a schoolroom.
Arranges to meet JWL’s son [John] to discuss use of microscope.
Mentions illness.
Thanks JWL for his paper ["Shooting stars", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 (1848): 81–8, 170–2; 35 (1849): 356–7].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Lubbock, 3d baronet |
Date: | [Dec 1848–9] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1212 |
To B. W. Hawkins [1848–51]
Summary
Testimonial recommending B. Waterhouse Hawkins [for a teaching post].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins |
Date: | [1848–51] |
Classmark: | Library of Congress Manuscript Division (George P. Merrill collection, box 4, file H) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13869 |
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Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
Langton, Catherine | (2) |
Breton, Philip le | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (6) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (85) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
Darwin, Emma | (6) |
Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
Gray, J. E. | (5) |