To Charles Wigley 21 March 1853
Summary
Encloses the transfer, signed and witnessed.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Wigley |
Date: | 21 Mar 1853 |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1507F |
To Charles Lyell 24 March [1853]
Summary
Volcanic activity of Mt Kilauea as described by Dana [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 9 (1850): 347–64]. Discusses the mechanics of volcanic eruption. Disputes view of William Hopkins that simultaneous action by volcanoes of different heights must come from separate lava sources. Notes relationship of continental elevation to volcanic action.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 24 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.105) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1508 |
To Albany Hancock 30 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 30 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1509 |
To J. S. Henslow 31 March [1853]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 31 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A52 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1510 |
To C. S. Bate 1 April [1853]
Summary
Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.
Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 1 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1511 |
To Andrew Crombie Ramsay 9 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 9 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1512 |
To John Higgins 11 April [1853]
Summary
Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1513 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1853]
Summary
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1514 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 15 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses the development and morphology of Verruca.
Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 15 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1515 |
From E. A. Darwin 26 April 1853
Summary
Acknowledges the receipt of some securities.
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [c. 27 April 1853]
Summary
Solicits information about the kind of syphon required to convey water from a proposed large water tank to existing smaller ones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [c. 27 Apr 1853] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 19, 7 May 1853, p. 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516A |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 7 June [1853]
Summary
Discusses JAHdeB’s drawing of a Verruca.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 7 June [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1517 |
To Charles Lyell 7 June [1853]
Summary
Describes meeting of Geological Society [1 June 1853].
Mentions his criticism of Murchison’s lecture on flints.
Describes Robert Chambers’ "On the glacial phenomena in Scotland" [Edinburgh New Philos. J. 54 (1853): 229–82].
Mentions controversial election of members to the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 7 June [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.107) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1518 |
To John Higgins 14 June [1853]
Summary
Discusses account.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 14 June [1853] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/65) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1519 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 18 June 1853
Summary
Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. Comments on various specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 18 June 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 126 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1520 |
To C. S. Bate 7 July [1853]
Summary
Will quote CSB on discovery of Alcippe lampas.
Hopes CSB continues to look for Verruca on limestone.
Discusses use of CSB’s larvae illustrations [for Living Cirripedia].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 7 July [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1521 |
To W. D. Fox 17 July [1853]
Summary
Discusses Rugby and education in general. The enormous proportion of time spent on classics checks interest "in anything in which reasoning & observation comes into play".
Expresses shock and sympathy on learning of the deaths in WDF’s house.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 17 July [1853] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1522 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 17 July 1853
Summary
Discusses valves in Scalpellum. Comments on JAHdeB’s research on cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 17 July 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 127 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1523 |
To John Murray 24 July [1853]
Summary
Asks JM to forward letter [1525] to Francis Galton "the author of the very interesting volume" Murray recently published.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 July [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 249: 31 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1524 |
To Francis Galton 24 July [1853]
Summary
FG’s volume on his African expedition [Narrative of an explorer in tropical South Africa (1853)] stimulates CD to express his admiration and to hope their acquaintance can be renewed.
Describes his health and life at Down.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 24 July [1853] |
Classmark: | UCL Library Services, Special Collections (GALTON/1/1/9/5/7/1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1525 |
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Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
Carden, Robert | (1) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
Hancock, Albany | (6) |
Bate, C. S. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (64) |
Hancock, Albany | (7) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
Hooker, J. D. | (5) |
Bate, C. S. | (4) |