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 |
letter | (11) |
Fitch, Robert | (1) |
Forchhammer, J. G. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
Sowerby, J. de C. | (2) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Sowerby, J. de C. | (2) |
Fitch, Robert | (1) |
Forchhammer, J. G. | (1) |