To Robert Fitch 6 January [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow some more cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 6 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1288 |
To Robert Fitch 10 January [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for sending fossil cirripede specimens. Unfortunately one was broken in transit. Asks if James de Carle Sowerby may draw specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 10 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1290 |
To Robert Fitch 15 January [1850]
Summary
Discusses fossil cirripede specimens from RF’s collection. Comments on problems of describing their valves.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 15 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1291 |
To Robert Fitch [23 January 1850]
Summary
Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. "Yours is incomparably the finest collection in the world of fossil Secondary cirripedes."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [23 Jan 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1295 |
To Robert Fitch [28 January 1850]
Summary
Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses RF’s collection.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [28 Jan 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1298 |
To Robert Fitch 1 February [1850]
Summary
Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1299 |
To Robert Fitch [5 February 1850]
Summary
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [5 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1301 |
To Robert Fitch [6 February 1850]
Summary
RF’s specimens have arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [6 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1302 |
To Robert Fitch 17 March [1850]
Summary
Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1313 |
To Robert Fitch [13? April 1850]
Summary
Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [13? Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1315 |
To Robert Fitch 5 May [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 5 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1325 |
To Robert Fitch 3 November [1850]
Summary
Explains that fossil cirripede specimens have not been returned because J. de C. Sowerby has been monstrously delayed with the engravings. Members of Palaeontographical Society have urged Sowerby to complete task.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 3 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1366 |
To Robert Fitch 11 November [1850]
Summary
Describes progress in illustrating fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369 |
To Robert Fitch [December? 1850]
Summary
Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [Dec? 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1376 |
