To Robert Fitch 1 February [1850]
Summary
Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 1 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1299 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850]
Summary
Hooker’s imprisonment.
Birth of Leonard Darwin.
Barnacles will never end; on to fossils.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 3 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 117 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1300 |
To Robert Fitch [5 February 1850]
Summary
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [5 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1301 |
To Robert Fitch [6 February 1850]
Summary
RF’s specimens have arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [6 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1302 |
To James de Carle Sowerby 12 February [1850]
Summary
Because of health, CD will postpone coming to London until all drawings are finished.
Asks JdeCS, if he is able "with any honesty", to "purloin" for him a proof-sheet of Frederick Dixon’s plate with cirripedes [in Geology and fossils … of Sussex (1850)].
Requests statement of total owed to JdeCS as a guide to the future.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 12 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1303 |
To the Palaeontographical Society [before 22 February 1850]
Summary
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Palaeontographical Society |
| Date: | [before 22 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1304 |
To J. D. Dana 24 February [1850]
Summary
Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.
Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.
Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.
Discusses boring species of cirripedes.
Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 24 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1305 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 25 February [1850]
Summary
Is sending JSB sponges.
He returns the Plumularia on which the beautiful Scalpellum ornatum was attached. [See 1229.]
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 25 Feb [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 185: 104 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1305A |
| letter | (8) |
| Fitch, Robert | (3) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Palaeontographical Society | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Fitch, Robert | (3) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
