To Robert Fitch [13? April 1850]
Summary
Illustration of RF’s fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [13? Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1315 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 3 April [1850]
Summary
Describes progress of research on fossil cirripedes. Comments on specimens sent by JS. Asks about age of several European formations, and for information about specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 3 Apr [1850] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1317 |
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 J. de C. Sowerby [13 April 1850]
Summary
CD wants Lepadidae drawings [for Fossil Cirripedia] harder, with lines of growth more distinct; he wants no shading or similarity to lithography, which he thinks has harmed natural history. He realises that mutilated specimens may make accuracy difficult.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | [13 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1336 |
To Richard Owen [before 28 April 1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [before 28 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1357 |
To S. P. Woodward [April 1850 – January 1851]
Summary
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13807 |
To J. S. Bowerbank [24 April 1850]
Summary
Requests permission to include foreign species in Fossil Cirrpedia (1851). Asks whether sponges arrived. Has not yet heard from Pearce about Pollicipes concinus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [24 Apr 1850] |
| Classmark: | University of Delaware Library (Mark Samuels Lasner Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1382F |
| letter | (10) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
| Gould, A. A. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
| Gould, A. A. | (1) |
