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To W. D. Fox 7 March [1852]
Summary
Congratulates and "condoles" with WDF on a tenth child.
On education, he has not had courage to break away from "the old stereotyped stupid classical education"; has sent William to Rugby.
The first Ray Society volume [Living Cirripedia] is finished.
Has joined in a society to prosecute violators of the act against use of children in climbing chimneys.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
| Date: | 7 Mar [1852] |
| Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 80) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1476 |
To Syms Covington 14 March 1852
Summary
Asks for details about the discoveries of gold in Australia.
Has published one book on barnacles [1851].
Sulivan has just returned from his cattle farm in the Falklands.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Syms Covington |
| Date: | 14 Mar 1852 |
| Classmark: | Sydney Mail, 9 August 1884, p. 254 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1477 |
To William Parsons, earl of Rosse, Chairman of the Committee of Papers, Royal Society 16 March [1852]
Summary
Referee’s report on paper by Daniel Sharpe ["On foliation and cleavage", Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 142 (1852): 445–62].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Parsons, 3d earl of Rosse, Lord Rosse, Lord Oxmantown; Royal Society of London |
| Date: | 16 Mar [1852] |
| Classmark: | The Royal Society (RR2: 226) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-840 |
Document type
| letter | (3) |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Parsons, William | (1) |
| Royal Society of London | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Fox, W. D. | (1) |
| Parsons, William | (1) |
| Royal Society of London | (1) |
