To William Harris 6 August [1850]
Summary
Reports on the fossil cirripedes sent him; several are new, some are "elegant".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Harris |
Date: | 6 Aug [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1344 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [12 or 19 August 1850]
Summary
CD asks for the return of a specimen [to be used for illustration in Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)], so he can do some identifying.
J. S. Bowerbank has again asked on behalf of the Palaeontographical Society what progress has been made.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | [12 or 19] Aug 1850 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1346 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 27 August [1850]
Summary
Returns one figure and sends two minute new species to be figured [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. "Pray observe how time slips by."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 27 Aug [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1347 |
To J. de C. Sowerby [28 August or 4 September 1850]
Summary
CD insistently requests JdeCS to have all rough illustrations [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] done in time for next Council meeting of the Palaeontographical Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | [28 Aug or 4 Sept] 1850 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1348 |
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 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 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 W. D. Fox 10 October [1850]
Summary
Is concerned about the education of his boys and is undecided between Rugby and Bruce Castle schools; is inclined toward the latter, but afraid to experiment on so important a subject.
Reports on his pear-trees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 10 Oct [1850] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 78) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1362 |
To Robert Fitch 3 November [1850]
Summary
Explains that fossil cirripede specimens have not been returned because J. de C. Sowerby has been monstrously delayed with the engravings. Members of Palaeontographical Society have urged Sowerby to complete task.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 3 Nov [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1366 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 11 November [1850]
Summary
CD likes the engravings [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] but is distressed by JdeCS’s slow progress and is being pressed by owners to return their specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 11 Nov [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1368 |
To Robert Fitch 11 November [1850]
Summary
Describes progress in illustrating fossil cirripede specimens by J. de C. Sowerby.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 11 Nov [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369 |
To Adam Sedgwick 11 October [1850]
Summary
Thanks AS for a copy of his book, Discourse [on the studies of the University, 5th ed.].
Thinking of not sending his eldest son [William] to a classical school.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam Sedgwick |
Date: | 11 Oct [1850] |
Classmark: | Rensselaer Libraries, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Gerald and Sue Friedman manuscript collection MC 72 Box 1) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1369F |
To Syms Covington 23 November 1850
Summary
Thanks SC for box of specimens [of cirripedes].
Often wishes he had settled in one of the colonies because of opportunities for his children.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Syms Covington |
Date: | 23 Nov 1850 |
Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1370 |
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Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
Bowerbank, J. S. | (7) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (2) |
Darwin, W. E. | (1) |
Downie, Robert | (1) |
Dunker, Wilhelm | (2) |
Fitch, Robert | (14) |
FitzRoy, Robert | (1) |
Forchhammer, J. G. | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (5) |
Harris, William | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Hooker, Maria (a) | (1) |
Hooker, W. J. | (2) |
Lankester, Edwin | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (3) |
Owen, Richard | (5) |
Palaeontographical Society | (2) |
Ray Society | (4) |
Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
Salt & Sons | (1) |
Salt, Thomas | (1) |
Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
Sowerby, G. B., Jr | (1) |
Sowerby, J. de C. | (15) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (5) |
Turner, Maria (a) | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (1) |
Wetherell, N. T. | (1) |
White, Adam | (1) |
Woodd, C. H. L. | (1) |
Woodward, S. P. | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | (97) |
Sowerby, J. de C. | (15) |
Fitch, Robert | (14) |
Bowerbank, J. S. | (7) |
Hancock, Albany | (5) |