To John Lubbock 10 [September 1853]
Summary
Asks about source of paper on the metamorphosis of Pycnogonida for C. S. Bate.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | 10 [Sept 1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.97) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1365 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 25 [April 1853]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 25 [Apr 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1379 |
To E. A. Darwin 26 [April 1853]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Apr 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 19, 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380 |
To [William Sharpey] [1853–72?]
Summary
If Hooker [presumably Joseph Dalton Hooker] knows he is proposed [for something at the Royal Society?] he will enquire if he can attend.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Sharpey |
Date: | [1853–72?] |
Classmark: | Duke University, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library (letter album compiled by William Sharpey, secretary of the Royal Society of London) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13892 |
To C. S. Bate 10 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if CSB can help him obtain specimen of Verruca.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1471 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
To Albany Hancock 10 January [1853]
Summary
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1497 |
To Albany Hancock 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses Alcippe. Asks to borrow specimens. Would like to hire fishermen to collect specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1498 |
To W. D. Fox 29 January [1853]
Summary
Discusses education of his sons. Would like to see more diversity.
He is pleased that Richard Owen and others had a good opinion of his first volume [on Living Cirripedia].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 29 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499 |
To Thomas Salt 31 January [1853]
Summary
Asks if Thomas Salt can dispose of the £600 Shrewsbury Street mortgage.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 31 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1499F |
To Albany Hancock 10 February [1853]
Summary
Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 10 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1500 |
To Albany Hancock 12 February [1853]
Summary
Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 12 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1501 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 18 February 1853
Summary
Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 18 Feb 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1503 |
To Albany Hancock 25 February [1853]
Summary
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 25 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | J. Hancock 1886, p. 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504 |
To J. S. Henslow 8 March [1853]
Summary
CD has been reassured about his "speculation" in Mr Warren’s company. Thanks JSH for his advice and trouble.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 8 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A21–A24 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506 |
To Thomas Salt 15 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 15 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506F |
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 |
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Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
Hancock, Albany | (6) |
Bate, C. S. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | (60) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (6) |
Hancock, Albany | (6) |
Bate, C. S. | (4) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |