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 |
From Edmund Saul Dixon [September–October 1848]
Summary
He can distinguish varieties of guinea-fowl as soon as birds are hatched.
Behaviour of Malay hens.
Author: | Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [Sept–Oct 1848] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 214 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1621 |
To John Thomas Quekett 7 September [1848]
Summary
Asks about collection of mollusc specimens he had lent to Richard Owen.
Asks about seeing cirripede collection of the College.
Comments on larva of Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Thomas Quekett; Royal College of Surgeons of England |
Date: | 7 Sept [1848] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.62) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1114 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
Dixon, E. S. | (1) |
Thompson, William (a) | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (2) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Milne-Edwards, Henri | (1) |
Quekett, J. T. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Dixon, E. S. | (1) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Milne-Edwards, Henri | (1) |