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To J. S. Henslow [1852–60]
Summary
Sends an enclosure forwarded from Down.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [1852–60] |
| Classmark: | Harvard Medical Library in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine (H MS c3.3) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1466F |
To Japetus Steenstrup 3 January [1852]
Summary
Asks JS to compare cirripede specimens with those of Lorenz Spengler to establish comparative nomenclature.
Requests reference to article describing Xenobalanus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 3 Jan [1852] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1469 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [before 10 January 1852]
Summary
Asks readers of Gardeners’ Chronicle whether they have experience with light wire rope instead of chain in drawing water buckets from deep wells. Describes the problem of his own well with its 325 foot chain.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
| Date: | [before 10 Jan 1852] |
| Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 2, 10 January 1852, p. 22 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1470 |
To Edward Forbes 23 January [1852?]
Summary
Discusses Balanus unguiformis. Promises to return specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Forbes |
| Date: | 23 Jan [1852?] |
| Classmark: | Florida State University Libraries, Strozier Library Special Collections Vault (tipped into a copy of Origin, QH365 .O2 1859) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472 |
To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society 30 January [1852]
Summary
The Binder "by some wonderful Blunder" has bound the enclosed in all of CD’s copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1]. He requests that it be pulled out. It may belong to W. A. Leighton’s volume [Lichens (1851)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edwin Lankester |
| Date: | 30 Jan [1852] |
| Classmark: | DAR 221.5: 19 photocopy; John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 56) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1472A |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Addressee
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Lankester, Edwin | (1) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Forbes, Edward | (1) |
| Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Lankester, Edwin | (1) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
