To John Higgins 27 May [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1334 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [8] June [1850]
Summary
CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [8] June [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1338 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850]
Summary
Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1300 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 27 October [1850]
Summary
MS [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] can be ready in two weeks, but CD would like a decision from the Council of the Ray Society on number of plates. Thinks specimen should be sent to G. B. Sowerby Jr for an estimate on price of engraving. Regrets he is not familiar with routine of the Society. Systematic section will be in two parts; the third part will be on anatomy, habits, etc.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1850] |
| Classmark: | Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (29 March 2000) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1364 |
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 |
Matches: 1 hit
To Louis Agassiz 15 June [1850]
Summary
Thanks LA for presentation copy of his book, Lake Superior [1850].
Comments on species of cirripedes sent by LA and A. A. Gould.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 15 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 275) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1341 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … r . Gould would care to see these few remarks on the Cirripedia of the U. States, will you kindly send him this letter. I have not yet examined the Chthamalus & Chelonobia you sent me from Charlestown. — Once again allow me to thank you with cordiality for the pleasure you have given me Believe me with the highest respect | Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin …
To J. de C. Sowerby 11 November [1850]
Summary
CD likes the engravings [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] but is distressed by JdeCS’s slow progress and is being pressed by owners to return their specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 11 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1368 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … r Wetherell; & 2 d . whether you received some six weeks ago a single minute valve—(in letter Registered) of Pollicipes gracilis , for an inside View on wood, if you could not get in a Plate. 3 d Can you not give me some rough notion when the other Plates will be done, to know it will be great assistance to me: do try & make up for the delay & annoyment I have suffered. Your’s sincerely | C. Darwin …
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1850]
Summary
On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.
Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.
Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1339 |
Matches: 1 hit
- … letters: I am extremely glad you are cordial with him again, though it must have cost you an effort. Falconer is a man one must love— pray give him my kindest remembrances. — D r . Malcolmson, the geologist, is certainly dead. — I have seen no one of late. I hear from my Brother that Kew is looking in very great beauty. May you prosper in every way my dear Hooker Your affectionate friend | C. Darwin …
| letter | (8) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (2) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (2) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
