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 |
From Albany Hancock 25 February 1853
Summary
Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.
| Author: | Albany Hancock |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 25 Feb 1853 |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1505 |
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 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 |
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- … 12). On this day, sixteen scientific men, including Captain Edward Augustus Inglefield , were elected FRS instead of the fifteen stipulated as the maximum in the rules of the society ( Hall 1984 , pp. 80–2). Murchison and Francis Beaufort presumably had proposed Inglefield. Elizabeth Wedgwood and Charlotte Langton . Both lived in Hartfield, Sussex. Emma noted in her diary that she went to Hartfield on 6 June and returned home on 10 …
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