To Salt & Son 26 November [1850]
Summary
Inquires about financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Salt & Sons |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1372 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 1 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses share dealings and investment matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
| Date: | 1 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 15 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1373 |
To John Higgins 13 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions reduction in rent due to agricultural conditions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1375 |
To Robert Fitch [December? 1850]
Summary
Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [Dec? 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1376 |
To John Higgins 21 December [1850]
Summary
Asks his opinion concerning possible investment. Asks about possible land sale to Mr Mason.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 21 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/41) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1377 |
To Albany Hancock 25 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1378 |
To W. E. Darwin [1850–4?]
Summary
Two letters have arrived for WED.
Joseph has had two teeth out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [1850–4?] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (17 November 1995) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13799F |
To S. P. Woodward [April 1850 – January 1851]
Summary
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
| Date: | [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851] |
| Classmark: | Wellcome Collection |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13807 |
To J. D. Dana 29 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses attachment of antennae in larvae of cirripedes.
Asks for information about how parasitic cirripedes are attached to host.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 29 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Smith College Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1381 |
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 George Brettingham Sowerby Jr 9 January [1850]
Summary
Sends thanks for a note and returned drawing.
He is sending more text.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Brettingham Sowerby, Jr |
| Date: | 9 Jan [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13843 |
To Maria Hooker 31 August [1850]
Summary
Expresses sympathy to MSH on W. J. Hooker’s illness.
Will send his comments on Hodgson’s physico-geographical memoir ["On the physical geography of the Himalayas", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 18 (1849): 761–88] directly to him.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Maria Sarah (Maria) Turner; Maria Sarah (Maria) Hooker |
| Date: | 31 Aug [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.95) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1349 |
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 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society [18–22 October 1850]
Summary
CD will write again when he returns to Down and has looked over his MS.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | [18–22 Oct 1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1363 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 27 October [1850]
Summary
MS [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] can be ready in two weeks, but CD would like a decision from the Council of the Ray Society on number of plates. Thinks specimen should be sent to G. B. Sowerby Jr for an estimate on price of engraving. Regrets he is not familiar with routine of the Society. Systematic section will be in two parts; the third part will be on anatomy, habits, etc.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 27 Oct [1850] |
| Classmark: | Empire Autograph Auctions (dealers) (29 March 2000) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1364 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 7 November [1850]
Summary
Has sent G. B. Sowerby Jr some skeleton plates [for vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] which the Council [of the Ray Society] may also wish to see, along with GBS’s finished drawings. He reminds EL that he has not heard about colour for the plates and adds he has not been told what type should be used; gives estimated lengths of part 1 in different sizes of type (part 2 will be fully twice the size of this). Hopes if the Council does not publish part 1 in 1851 it will publish all in 1852.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 7 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1367 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 5 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses illustrations [for Living Cirripedia 1 (1851)]. Mentions drawings by G. B. Sowerby [Jr].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester; Ray Society |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.98) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1374 |
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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) |
