To J. de C. Sowerby 1 September [1850]
Summary
CD has received an enormous lot of Scanian and Copenhagen cirripede fossils, some of which he thinks may be better than those sent to JdeCS earlier; asks him to delay engraving foreign specimens until CD has time to go through the new lot.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1350 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 1 September [1850]
Summary
Fossil cirripede specimens have arrived.
Describes progress on his monograph [Fossil Cirripedia].
Would be grateful for the paper on Lithotrya. Asks for information.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 1 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1351 |
To W. D. Fox 4 September [1850]
Summary
Has heard that Louis Agassiz maintains the doctrine of several species of man "much I daresay to the comfort of the slave-holding southerners".
Homeopathy excites his wrath even more than clairvoyance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 4 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 77) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1352 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 10 September [1850]
Summary
New specimens have shown CD he has two distinct species under one name [in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. He adds new figures and suggests deletions. Will come to London when he has proofs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1354 |
To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Summary
About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];
would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1355 |
To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1356 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 12 September [1850]
Summary
CD has two corrections in spelling on woodcut [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has asked J. S. Bowerbank who should cut the blocks and suggested JdeCS get it done. Repeats arrangements to compare specimens and proofs in London.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 12 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1358 |
To Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker 20 September 1850
Summary
Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens.
Describes progress on his book [Fossil Cirripedia] and his work on living cirripedes. Asks to borrow specimens.
Comments on book [F. C. L. Koch and Wilhelm Dunker, Norddeutschen Oolithgebildes (1837)].
Sends thanks to Friedrich Adolph Roemer and R. A. Philippi for specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Wilhelm Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian (Wilhelm) Dunker |
| Date: | 20 Sept 1850 |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 4941 I, 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1359 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 23 September [1850]
Summary
Plans to come to London to examine the proofs of JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Has new German specimens; one is unknown and must be introduced but a woodblock will do.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
| Date: | 23 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1360 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 10 September [1850]
Summary
Discusses woodcut illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia, vol. 1]. Wants species descriptions to be in both Latin and English.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.96) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1353 |
| letter | (10) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Dunker, Wilhelm | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Dunker, Wilhelm | (1) |
