From J. D. Hooker 6 and 7 April 1850
Summary
Spoke too harshly about CD’s involvement in nomenclatural reform.
JDH used to think CD "too prone to theoretical considerations about species", hence was pleased CD took up a difficult group like barnacles. CD’s theories have progressed but JDH not converted. Sikkim has not cleared up his doubts about CD’s doctrines.
Argument with Falconer.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 and 7 Apr 1850 |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (India Letters 1847–51: 274–6 JDH/1/10) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1319 |
To Thomas Salt 7 April [1850]
Summary
Thanks for the information about a possible investment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 7 Apr [1850] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1319F |
To A. A. Gould 8 April [1850]
Summary
Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
Date: | 8 Apr [1850] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 228) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1320 |
To Albany Hancock 15 [April 1850]
Summary
Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 15 [Apr 1850] |
Classmark: | J. Hancock (1886): 258–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1321 |
To Richard Owen 28 April [1850]
Summary
Discusses possibility of providing B. J. Sulivan with a vessel for fossil hunting in Patagonia.
Asks RO to ask Mrs Dixon about borrowing cirripede specimen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 28 Apr [1850] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1322 |
To W. D. Fox [May 1850]
Summary
Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [May 1850] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1323 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 4 May [1850]
Summary
The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 4 May [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1324 |
To Robert Fitch 5 May [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 5 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1325 |
To John Higgins 9 May [1850]
Summary
Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 9 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1326 |
To Albany Hancock 12 May [1850]
Summary
Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 12 May [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1327 |
To J. G. Forchhammer 20 May [1850]
Summary
Thanks JGF for geological information.
Steenstrup’s cirripede specimens have been of great use and interest. CD has now described 33 fossil pedunculated cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johan Georg Forchhammer |
Date: | 20 May [1850] |
Classmark: | University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1328 |
To the Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 20 May [1850]
Summary
Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 20 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1329 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 20 May [1850]
Summary
Describes progress in illustration of fossil cirripede specimens. Thanks for answers to questions. Comments on hermaphroditism. Describes his discovery of parasitic male cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 20 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1330 |
To W. J. Hooker 22 May [1850]
Summary
Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 22 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1331 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [26 May 1850]
Summary
Urges dispatch on illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia]; CD’s MS has been ready for some time and all depends on JdeCS. Suggests a way to hasten progress.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | [26 May 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1333 |
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 [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 1 September [1850]
Summary
CD has received an enormous lot of Scanian and Copenhagen cirripede fossils, some of which he thinks may be better than those sent to JdeCS earlier; asks him to delay engraving foreign specimens until CD has time to go through the new lot.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 1 Sept [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1350 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 1 September [1850]
Summary
Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.
Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 1 Sept [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1351 |
To W. D. Fox 4 September [1850]
Summary
Has heard that Louis Agassiz maintains the doctrine of several species of man "much I daresay to the comfort of the slave-holding southerners".
Homeopathy excites his wrath even more than clairvoyance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 4 Sept [1850] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1352 |
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