To J. S. Bowerbank [24 January – 7 March 1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for specimens of fossil Balanidae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [24 Jan – 7 Mar 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1296 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 17 March [1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.
Sends stamps for specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1312 |
From J. S. Bowerbank 1 August 1864
Summary
Cannot find his Chalk or Gault formation Pollicipes. Inquires how CD sent these back.
| Author: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 1 Aug 1864 |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 262 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4580 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Bowerbank, J. S. Darwin, C. R. …
- … From J. S. Bowerbank 1 August 1864 …
- … can enlighten me on the subject. Most truly Yours | J. S. Bowerbank C. Darwin Esqr &c— …
- … August 1850] , and letter to J. S. Bowerbank, 10 September [1850] ). The illustrations …
- … see Correspondence vol. 4, letters to J. S. Bowerbank, 19 January [1850] and [8 March …
- … Bowerbank is cited as a source of Pollicipes specimens from the Chalk and Gault deposits in Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , pp. 54, 62–5, and 73–7. CD had sent some of the specimens to James de Carle Sowerby for illustration (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. …
To J. S. Bowerbank 24 February [1849]
Summary
Thanks him for cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1849] |
| Classmark: | Formerly Leeds City Libraries; for sale at Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1229 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 29 March [1859]
Summary
Requests receipt for payments to Society in 1858–9.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 29 Mar [1859] |
| Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2438 |
To J. S. Bowerbank, Ray Society 28 September [1851]
Summary
G. B. Sowerby’s plates [for Living Cirripedia] are ready for the printer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 28 Sept [1851] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1455 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 25 February [1850]
Summary
Is sending JSB sponges.
He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1305A |
Matches: 4 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Bowerbank, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Bowerbank 25 February [1850] …
- … see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to J. S. Bowerbank, 24 February [1849] ). In a letter …
- … J. de C. Sowerby, 3 March [1850] , CD refers to delayed plans to visit London in order to deliver and collect cirripede specimens ( Correspondence vol. 4). Plumularia is a genus of feathery, branching colonies of hydrozoan polyps that have a protective horny covering. Scapellum ornatum , a barnacle from Algoa Bay, South Africa, is described in Living Cirripedia (1851), p. 244. Both were sent to CD by Bowerbank …
To J. S. Bowerbank [January–August 1848]
Summary
Thanks him for Balanus specimens. Comments on his findings. A large Acasta in the wet state would be valuable. Asks JSB to mention his work to J. T. Quekett at the College of Surgeons.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [Jan–Aug 1848] |
| Classmark: | John Hay Library, Brown University (Albert E. Lownes Manuscript Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1045 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Bowerbank, J. S. …
- … interesting. With many thanks | Your’s very sincerely | C. Darwin J. S. Bowerbank. …
- … To J. S. Bowerbank [January–August 1848] …
- … Society, of which Bowerbank was a member (see letter to J. T. Quekett, 7 September [ …
- … parts of the world’. See also letter to J. S. Bowerbank, 24 February [1849] . CD recorded …
- … J. E. Gray, 18 December 1847 . The letter also precedes letter to John Thomas Quekett, 7 September [1848] . The Geological Society of London . CD and Bowerbank …
To J. S. Bowerbank [24 April 1850]
Summary
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1382F |
To J. S. Bowerbank [8 March 1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].
Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [8 Mar 1850] |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1310 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Bowerbank, J. S. …
- … To J. S. Bowerbank [8 March 1850] …
- … Bowerbank. Balanus cranchii is recorded as one of the synonyms for B. perforatus ( Living Cirripedia (1854): 231). William Eling was a dealer in shells living in Deptford High Street, London ( Post Office London directory 1848). See letter to the Palaeontographical Society, [before 22 February 1850] . For CD’s opinion on the inadequacy of lithography for figuring natural history specimens, see letter to J. …
To J. S. Bowerbank 19 January [1850]
Summary
Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1294 |
From J. S. Bowerbank [4 November 1867]
Summary
Reports two observations on crossing in dogs: the preservation of both pure types in the offspring of a pointer and a setter, and the influence of a first mating with a mongrel on the progeny of a Barbary bitch and a subsequent Barbary male.
| Author: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4 Nov 1867] |
| Classmark: | DAR 160: 261 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13780 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 25 June [1851]
Summary
Asks to re-examine specimen of Scalpellum. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia] by Palaeontographical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 25 June [1851] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1438 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 7 July [1851]
Summary
Asks to borrow woodcut from Palaeontographical Society for use in Living Cirripedia, vol. 1.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society |
| Date: | 7 July [1851] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.99) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1441 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 10 September [1850]
Summary
Discusses woodcut illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia, vol. 1]. Wants species descriptions to be in both Latin and English.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1353 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 12 September [1850]
Summary
CD has two corrections in spelling on woodcut [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has asked J. S. Bowerbank who should cut the blocks and suggested JdeCS get it done. Repeats arrangements to compare specimens and proofs in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1358 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 9 September [1851]
Summary
Returns fossil cirripede specimens to JS and Forchhammer.
Sends copies [of Fossil Cirripedia] to them and to Sven Lovén.
Reading proofs [of Living Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 9 Sept [1851] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1454 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [28 August or 4 September 1850]
Summary
CD insistently requests JdeCS to have all rough illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] done in time for next Council meeting of the Palaeontographical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [28 Aug or 4 Sept] 1850 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1348 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [12 or 19 August 1850]
Summary
CD asks for the return of a specimen [to be used for illustration in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)], so he can do some identifying.
J. S. Bowerbank has again asked on behalf of the Palaeontographical Society what progress has been made.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [12 or 19] Aug 1850 |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1346 |
From T. H. Huxley 16 July 1869
Summary
Has already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank.
Has lost track of collectors and naturalists "by grace of the dredge" because of other work and ""the great question of "Darwinismus" which is such a worry to us all"".
Family health.
| Author: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 16 July 1869 |
| Classmark: | DAR 166: 320 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6830 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … already referred Haeckel’s request to J. S. Bowerbank. Has lost track of collectors and …
- … Bowerbank . See letter to T. H. Huxley, 9 July [1869] . Huxley refers to the practice of dredging for marine specimens. Henrietta Anne Huxley . Huxley refers to Joseph Dalton Hooker and Frances Harriet Hooker , who had spent six weeks travelling in Russia and northern Europe. See letter from J. …
| letter | (31) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (26) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (2) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (1) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (1) |
| Moulinié, J. J. | (1) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (13) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Palaeontographical Society | (2) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (31) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (15) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (4) |
| Haeckel, Ernst | (2) |
| Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
