To J. S. Bowerbank 19 January [1850]
Summary
Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 19 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1294 |
To J. S. Bowerbank [24 January – 7 March 1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for specimens of fossil Balanidae.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [24 Jan – 7 Mar 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.91) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1296 |
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 |
To J. S. Bowerbank [8 March 1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for cirripede specimens. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia].
Discusses his membership in Palaeontographical Society.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | [8 Mar 1850] |
| Classmark: | University of London, Senate House Library (AL 44a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1310 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 17 March [1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.
Sends stamps for specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1312 |
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 |
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 |
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| Bowerbank, J. S. | |
| Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
| Palaeontographical Society | (1) |
