To J. de C. Sowerby 3 March [1850]
Summary
Has lost a good many days and will need another fortnight to finish the pedunculate fossil cirripedes. The Palaeontographical Society will publish the fossil species. "If I was but better in health, I shd work quicker."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1306 |
To Wilhelm Dunker 3 March [1850]
Summary
Explains that he is working on recent and fossil Cirripedia, and asks if WD can aid him with specimens of Roemer’s Pollicipes species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker |
| Date: | 3 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | Antiquariat Inlibris (dealers) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1306F |
To Charles Henry Lardner Woodd 4 March 1850
Summary
Comments on paper by CHLW.
Considers effect of heat on bending of strata, and producing volcanoes and elevation.
"I can have no doubt that speculative men, with a curb on, make far the best observers."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Henry Lardner Woodd |
| Date: | 4 Mar 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 148: 375 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1307 |
To Charles Lyell [8 March 1850]
Summary
Comments on CL’s Anniversary address [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): xxvii–lxvi]. Notes CL’s criticism of R. I. Murchison’s catastrophism.
Asks whether there are Lower Cretaceous beds in Scandinavia. Thinks Leopold von Buch must have neglected them.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [8 Mar 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.92) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1308 |
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 |
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 |
To Robert Fitch 17 March [1850]
Summary
Describes progress of cirripede research. Palaeontographical Society will publish monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1313 |
To S. P. Woodward 21 March [1850]
Summary
Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]
Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | 21 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1314 |
To Albany Hancock [31 March or 7 April 1850]
Summary
AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.
Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | [31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850 |
| Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1316 |
| letter | (9) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (2) |
| Dunker, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (1) |
| Woodd, C. H. L. | (1) |
| Woodward, S. P. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (2) |
| Dunker, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
