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To Charles Lyell [8 June 1850]
Summary
Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.
Personal and social comment.
Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [8 June 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1337 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [8] June [1850]
Summary
CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [8] June [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1338 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1850]
Summary
On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.
Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.
Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 13 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 115 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1339 |
To Louis Agassiz 15 June [1850]
Summary
Thanks LA for presentation copy of his book, Lake Superior [1850].
Comments on species of cirripedes sent by LA and A. A. Gould.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 15 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 275) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1341 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 15 June [1850]
Summary
Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 15 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1342 |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Addressee
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (1) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (1) |
