To S. P. Woodward 10 July 1848
Summary
Is pleased to support SPW’s application for a position in the fossil department at the British Museum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 10 July 1848 |
Classmark: | British Museum (Central Archive Staff Applications and Testimonials: S. P. Woodward CE33/710/45) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189A |
To S. P. Woodward 21 March [1850]
Summary
Thanks SPW for his history of Aptychus, which makes A. D. d’Orbigny’s view [that it is a cirripede] improbable. [See Fossil Cirripedia 1: 3.]
Specimens SPW sent are very useful and interesting.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 21 Mar [1850] |
Classmark: | Barbara and Robert Pincus (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1314 |
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 S. P. Woodward 3 March [1851]
Summary
Cirripede fossil specimens returned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 3 Mar [1851] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1392 |
To S. P. Woodward 9 June [1851]
Summary
Asks for reference to article by Kölliker, ["Some observations on the structure of two new species of Hectocotyle", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1851): 9–22]. Asks for information.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 9 June [1851] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1435 |
To S. P. Woodward 6 May 1854
Summary
CD expresses his inability to accept the view that the Hippuritidae are in any way a connecting link between the oysters and the barnacles.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 6 May 1854 |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (1909: 9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1570 |
To S. P. Woodward 15 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for Supplement to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [1851–6]. Praises SPW’s work. "What an amount of labour is condensed in your little volume! … I fully believe & hope that you will reap the only reward worth having, the consciousness that you have done good service to the cause of Science."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 15 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s (dealers) (21 March 1966) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1875 |
To S. P. Woodward 27 May [1856]
Summary
Thanks for answer to query. "I see … that there is no hope of comparing the same genus at two different periods, and seeing whether the tendency to vary is greater at one period in such genus than at another period."
Inclined to dispute SPW’s doctrine that islands are generally ancient. Doubts that they are remnants of continents.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 27 May [1856] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections DC AL 1/5) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1879 |
To S. P. Woodward 3 June [1856]
Summary
Comments on SPW’s book [Manual of Mollusca (1851–6)].
Mentions questions he has for SPW [see 1890].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 3 June [1856] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.129) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1886 |
To S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Summary
Queries from CD on the distribution of molluscan genera referring to SPW’s Manual of the Mollusca [pt 3 (1856)], with SPW’s answers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 72: 59–61 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1890 |
To S. P. Woodward 18 July 1856
Summary
Thanks for information about variability in shells.
Comments on Harvey’s Seaside book [1849].
"I am growing as bad as the worst about species and hardly have a vestige of belief in the permanence of species left in me".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 18 July 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 378 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1931 |
To S. P. Woodward 9 [July 1860]
Summary
Regrets he cannot answer SPW’s questions.
Discusses antiquity of subaerial volcanoes.
Disagrees "entirely & absolutely" with L. von Buch’s "elevation-crater-theory".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 9 [July 1860] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections MSS DAR 2) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2630 |
To S. P. Woodward 6 March [1860]
Summary
Will be glad to have SPW’s criticisms of Origin.
Discusses his use of terms, "typical" and "specialisation".
Emphasises large body of facts explained by his theory of species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 6 Mar [1860] |
Classmark: | DAR 148: 379 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2724 |
To S. P. Woodward 5 June [1861]
Summary
Gives directions to Down. Would be happy to see SPW but regrets they "have no attractions".
Agrees about colonisation of Arctic region.
CD thought that his St Helena land shells had quite recently become embedded; his specimens are at the Geological Society.
Can SPW ask A. Günther for any references to Silurus escaping from the Danube?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 5 June [1861] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 230–32b) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3043 |
To S. P. Woodward 29 [September 1843]
Summary
Says he will call tomorrow to examine indicated specimens and books at Geological Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 29 [Sept 1843] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 228–9) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-697 |
From S. P. Woodward [after 4 June 1856]
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 4 June 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 403 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1807 |
From S. P. Woodward 2 May 1856
Summary
Proportion of molluscan species to genera in various periods. The difficulty of determining species increases with the number of species per genus. Identifying species within a genus is most difficult in that period in which the genus shows its greatest development.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 May 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 181: 153 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1864 |
From S. P. Woodward 4 June 1856
Summary
SPW and Waterhouse agree on island faunas; gives Australia and Tasmania as examples. The "stream of migration" from Asia to Tasmania.
Looks forward eagerly to the publication of CD’s "specific" researches.
Invites CD to send his memoranda [on Manual of Mollusca].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 June 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 303 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1889 |
From S. P. Woodward 15 July 1856
Summary
Has reduced 20 Cyrena species to geographical varieties of one species, Cyrena fluminalis. Hooker is reducing Indian flora at the rate of 19 to 1.
Recommends W. H. Harvey’s Seaside book [1849] and Charles Pickering’s Races of man [1850].
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 July 1856 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 304 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1927 |
From S. P. Woodward [15 July 1856]
Summary
Lists Lusitanian shells with wide ranges beyond that geographical province.
Antiquity and elevation of land mass is more important than latitude for the distribution of shells.
Author: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 July 1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 305 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1928 |
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Woodward, S. P. | (7) |
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Darwin, C. R. | (7) |
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