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. 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 | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Palaeontographical Society | (1) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Palaeontographical Society | (1) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (1) |
