From G. B. Sowerby [January – February? 1845]
Summary
Cancelled: not a letter. Identifications of fossil shells from various localities in South America. A fragmented collection of notes probably from more than one original set.
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 6–45 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-812 |
From G. B. Sowerby [1846]
Summary
Note on editorial details concerning names of fossil shells [for South America, appendix]. The Latin for "Darwin" is "Darvinius".
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [1846] |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 5 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-939 |
From G. B. Sowerby 17 January 1846
Summary
Describes his reasoning in classifying CD’s Turritella ambulacrum specimens into two sorts. GBS holds that distinguishing characters, whether of species or varieties, should always be noticed. [See South America, appendix, pl. III, fig. 49.]
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 17 Jan 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 1c–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-943 |
From G. B. Sowerby 7 February 1846
Summary
Gives his opinion on the tropical character of fossil shells listed by CD. The shells of Navidad [Chile] are not particularly tropical.
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 7 Feb 1846 |
| Classmark: | DAR 43.1: 3–4 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-949 |
From George Brettingham Sowerby and Edward Forbes 28 May 1844
Summary
[Recto is a list of Galapagos shells, by island, signed GBS. Verso is another list of shells in EF’s hand.]
| Author: | George Brettingham Sowerby; Edward Forbes |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 28 May 1844 |
| Classmark: | DAR 46.2: B1–2 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-752 |
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Sowerby, G. B. | (5) |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
