To Lovell Augustus Reeve [before 14 March 1849]
Summary
Happy to support LAR’s application to the Royal Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Lovell Augustus Reeve |
| Date: | [before 14 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Melvill 1900: 352 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1223F |
To William Thompson [1 March 1849]
Summary
Encloses diagram illustrating difference between Chthamalus and Balanus. Specimens sent. Finds no Chthamalus in WT’s collection.
Has read with much interest WT’s book [The natural history of Ireland, vol. 1 (1849)].
Recommends E. S. Dixon’s book [Ornamental and domestic poultry; their history and management (1848)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Thompson |
| Date: | [1 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add.L.b.1: 24) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1232 |
To Henri Milne-Edwards 2 March [1849]
Summary
CD is obliged to put off his journey to Paris because of ill-health, but this will give CD more time to study the specimens.
Values HM-E’s opinion on CD’s barnacle work more than any man’s in Europe.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
| Date: | 2 Mar [1849] |
| Classmark: | Piasa SA, Paris (dealers) (2008) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1232F |
To Susan Darwin [19 March 1849]
Summary
Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
| Date: | [19 Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 92: A7–A8 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1234 |
To W. D. Fox 24 [March 1849]
Summary
Reports progress with water-cure. Describes the treatment.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 24 [Mar 1849] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1235 |
To J. D. Hooker 28 March 1849
Summary
CD’s health and his father’s death have delayed his answer. Describes J. M. Gully’s water-cure.
JDH’s Galapagos papers [Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 20 (1851): 163–233] have excellent discussion of geographical distribution, but why no general treatment of affinities?
CD’s views on clay-slate laminae.
Turmoil in Royal Society between naturalists and physicists.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 28 Mar 1849 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 113 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1236 |
To Syms Covington 30 March 1849
Summary
Reports on developments in recent years, his father’s death, his own poor health, publications, and work on barnacles. Asks SC to collect some specimens, if he lives near the sea.
News of FitzRoy and B. J. Sulivan.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 30 Mar 1849 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1237 |
| letter | (7) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Milne-Edwards, Henri | (1) |
| Reeve, L. A. | (1) |
| Thompson, William (a) | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
