To Hugh Cuming [October? 1849]
Summary
Discusses cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Hugh Cuming |
| Date: | [Oct? 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.82) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1258 |
To J. D. Dana 8 October 1849
Summary
Discusses cirripedes collected by JDD.
Gratified that he agrees "to some extent" with CD’s views on coral reefs.
Mentions his health.
Asks for JDD’s publication on cirripedes.
Sends message from William Baird concerning Crustacea research of J. O. Westwood.
Mentions Joseph Leidy’s discovery of cirripede eyes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 8 Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1259 |
To J. D. Hooker 12 October 1849
Summary
CD thinks great dam across Yangma valley is a lateral glacial moraine.
Reports on Birmingham BAAS meeting.
Details of water-cure.
Barnacles becoming tedious; careful description shows slight differences constitute varieties, not species.
Lamination of gneiss.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
| Date: | 12 Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | DAR 114: 116 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1260 |
To George Ransome 25 October [1849]
Summary
Agrees to subscribe £1 toward the portrait of a bishop of Norwich.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 25 Oct [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.81) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1261 |
To Albany Hancock [29 or 30 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks him for specimens of Alcippe.
Comments on sketches by AH and on cirripede paper by Lovén.
Discusses Lithotrya and its burrowing habits.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | [29 or 30] Oct 1849 |
| Classmark: | Maine Historical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1262 |
To Swale and Wilson [on or before 24 October 1849]
Summary
Orders books [Hugh Miller, Foot-prints of the Creator (1849)
and Carl Wilhelm von Humboldt, Thoughts and opinions of a statesman, Sir Arthur Helps, ed. (1849)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Swale and Wilson |
| Date: | [on or before 24 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | W. H. Thorpe (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1263 |
To J. S. Henslow [7 October 1849]
Summary
Thanks JSH for information and suggestions on benefit clubs,
and for a shipment of fossil cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [7 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A89–A90 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1283 |
To J. S. Henslow [before 12 October 1849]
Summary
J. B. Innes is greatly obliged for JSH’s letter. JSH’s observation of chalk flints strikes CD as "very curious".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | [before 12 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A91 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1284 |
To M. E. Lyell [24 October 1849]
Summary
Asks MEL to translate page of paper by Sven Lovén ["Ny art af Cirripedia", Ofvers. K. Vetensk. Acad. Forh. Stockholm 1 (1844): 192–4]. CD is "dreadfully interested" in the barnacles [Alepas squalicola] described.
Hopes Charles Lyell’s "craters of Denudation" prosper.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
| Date: | [24 Oct 1849] |
| Classmark: | DAR 146: 332 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1266 |
| letter | (9) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Cuming, Hugh | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (2) |
| Cuming, Hugh | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (1) |
