To ? 31 December [1852–3]
Summary
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Dec [1852-3] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13872 |
To ? 19 December [1852 or 1854]
Summary
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Dec [1852 or 1854] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1464 |
To Philip Henry Stanhope 30 July [1852]
Summary
Declines invitation to Chevening [Lord Stanhope’s residence].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Philip Henry Stanhope, 5th Earl Stanhope |
Date: | 30 July [1852] |
Classmark: | Archives of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3 (1)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13844 |
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 |
To J. D. Dana 15 February [1852]
Summary
Sending first volumes on Living and Fossil Cirripedia. Solicits JDD’s opinion, especially on sexual relations of Scalpellum and Ibla, on which he "hardly expect[s] to be believed".
Sends unusual crustacean specimen collected by B. J. Sulivan.
The Sporillus sent by JDD is a very curious species of Acasta [see Living Cirripedia 2: 319].
Asks JDD to identify and give geographical distribution of pieces of coral in which some cirripedes are imbedded.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 15 Feb [1852] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1473 |
To W. E. Darwin 24 [February 1852]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
Date: | 24 [Feb 1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.6: 3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1474 |
To A. A. Gould 29 February [1852]
Summary
Sends presentation copy of Fossil Cirripedia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
Date: | 29 Feb [1852] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 226) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1475 |
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 |
DCP-LETT-1478
Summary
Cancelled: draft of 1496.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [Apr 1852] |
Classmark: | DAR 206: 40 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478 |
From Japetus Steenstrup 8 April 1852
Summary
His difficulties in answering CD’s letter of 3 Jan [1852] [see 1469]. There is no Lepas mitra in the Lorenz Spengler collection. He undertakes to compare the specimens of Balanus sent by CD with those of Spengler.
He thanks CD for his book [Fossil Cirripedia (1851)].
His work with Professor Forchhammer and Mr Worsaae.
Author: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr 1852 |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1478A |
To George Crawford Hyndman 16 April [1852]
Summary
Thanks GCH for Balanus specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Crawford Hyndman |
Date: | 16 Apr [1852] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.101) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1479 |
To John William Parker 5 May [1852]
Summary
As an author of some scientific works CD is of the opinion that each bookseller should settle, each for himself, the retail price.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John William Parker |
Date: | 5 May [1852] |
Classmark: | Stationers’ Company (Records Pt XI (III) J. W. Parker: autograph letters from authors (TSC/1/F/07/22)) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480A |
To J. D. Dana 8 May [1852]
Summary
Gratified by JDD’s opinion of his work.
Discusses problem of homologies of cirripede larva in first stage and reasons for his view.
JDD’s information on corals was just what CD needed.
Would like specimen of blind cave rat described by B. Silliman [Jr] ["On the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky", Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 11 (1851): 336] for Waterhouse to examine.
Discusses origin of Australian valleys; he disagrees with JDD’s river-erosion hypothesis.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 8 May [1852] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1481 |
To John Higgins 19 June [1852]
Summary
Discusses his account and rent reduction. Comments on agricultural prices.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 19 June [1852] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/54) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1483 |
To Richard Owen 17 July [1852]
Summary
Gratified by what RO says about his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1 (1851)]. The anatomical work is the only part he is really interested in; finds the "mere systematic part infinitely tedious"; but will be surprised if he is ever proved wrong on the males of Ibla and Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | 17 July [1852] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/188) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1484 |
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Higgins, John | (2) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Dana, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Forbes, Edward | (1) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Higgins, John | (4) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Hyndman, G. C. | (1) |
Johnston, George | (1) |
Lankester, Edwin | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Parker, J. W. | (1) |
Parsons, William | (1) |
Ransome, George | (1) |
Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
Royal Society of London | (1) |
Shaw, H. N. | (1) |
Stanhope, P. H. | (1) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (2) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Higgins, John | (6) |
Dana, J. D. | (3) |
Darwin, W. E. | (2) |
Fox, W. D. | (2) |
Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (2) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (2) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Forbes, Edward | (1) |
Gardeners’ Chronicle | (1) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Hyndman, G. C. | (1) |
Johnston, George | (1) |
Lankester, Edwin | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Parker, J. W. | (1) |
Parsons, William | (1) |
Ransome, George | (1) |
Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
Royal Society of London | (1) |
Shaw, H. N. | (1) |
Stanhope, P. H. | (1) |
Waterhouse, G. R. | (1) |