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 W. D. Fox [May 1850]
Summary
Details of his continuing water-cure regimen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [May 1850] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 76) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1323 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 4 May [1850]
Summary
The Palaeontographical Society will give him only one plate for foreign species. Work should stop until he knows how many will fit in. He must know what progress has been made.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 4 May [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1324 |
To Robert Fitch 5 May [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 5 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1325 |
To John Higgins 9 May [1850]
Summary
Agrees to reduce rent on farm because of bad times.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 9 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/32) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1326 |
To Albany Hancock 12 May [1850]
Summary
Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 12 May [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1327 |
To J. G. Forchhammer 20 May [1850]
Summary
Thanks JGF for geological information.
Steenstrup’s cirripede specimens have been of great use and interest. CD has now described 33 fossil pedunculated cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johan Georg Forchhammer |
Date: | 20 May [1850] |
Classmark: | University of Copenhagen, Mineralogical Museum Archives |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1328 |
To the Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 20 May [1850]
Summary
Asks for whatever numbers, since 1845, of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society] he, as a Fellow, is entitled to receive gratis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Royal Geographical Society |
Date: | 20 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1329 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 20 May [1850]
Summary
Describes progress in illustration of fossil cirripede specimens. Thanks for answers to questions. Comments on hermaphroditism. Describes his discovery of parasitic male cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 20 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1330 |
To W. J. Hooker 22 May [1850]
Summary
Encloses a letter from J. D. Hooker [see 1257], thinking that WJH would like to see it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 22 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 200) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1331 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [26 May 1850]
Summary
Urges dispatch on illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia]; CD’s MS has been ready for some time and all depends on JdeCS. Suggests a way to hasten progress.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | [26 May 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1333 |
To John Higgins 27 May [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 27 May [1850] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1334 |
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 Charles Lyell [8 June 1850]
Summary
Discusses depths at which ripple-marks appear on sea-floor.
Personal and social comment.
Mentions receiving Agassiz’s Lake Superior [1850].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 June 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.94) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1337 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [8] June [1850]
Summary
CD is pleased with the drawings for Fossil Cirripedia but wants a few corrections which he would like very soon.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | [8] June [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1338 |
To J. D. Hooker 13 June [1850]
Summary
On Himalayan stratigraphy. Believes JDH’s observations of glacial action are the first ever done east of Urals.
Barnacles and the species theory; impressed with variation.
Effect of CD’s species sketch on JDH’s view of willow systematics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 June [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1339 |
To Louis Agassiz 15 June [1850]
Summary
Thanks LA for presentation copy of his book, Lake Superior [1850].
Comments on species of cirripedes sent by LA and A. A. Gould.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
Date: | 15 June [1850] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 275) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1341 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 15 June [1850]
Summary
Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 15 June [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1342 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 8 July [1850]
Summary
Has received plates. Gives instructions for scale and arrangement of engravings.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 8 July [1850] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (17 June 2010) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1343 |
To Robert Downie 14 July [1850]
Summary
An enquiry about the availability, size, and cost of cork-lined boxes for entomological collections.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Downie |
Date: | 14 July [1850] |
Classmark: | Autos & Autos (dealers) (Catalogue 839) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1343A |
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Fox, W. D. | (4) |
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Hancock, Albany | (5) |
Harris, William | (1) |
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Higgins, John | (4) |
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Lankester, Edwin | (4) |
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Owen, Richard | (5) |
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Salt, Thomas | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
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