To Albany Hancock 10 February [1853]
Summary
Has found plenty of male Alcippe on specimens. Would eventually like more specimens. Did not recognise males at first. Has found Alcippe difficult to make out.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 10 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1500 |
To Albany Hancock 12 February [1853]
Summary
Describes anatomy and growth stages of Alcippe in close detail.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 12 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1501 |
To Charles Lyell 15 February [1853]
Summary
Returns Lake Superior [1850], which he already has received from Agassiz. Thanks for pamphlets by C. B. Adams [on Mollusca, Contrib. Conchol. 10 (1851): 189–206; 11 (1852): 207–15].
Describes his dissection of an unusual cirripede [Alcippe lampas] with 12 males attached [see Living Cirripedia 2: 556, 558].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 15 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.103) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1502 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III 18 February 1853
Summary
Sends his written consent regarding custody of the deeds of the Owen mortgage. Other financial matters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 18 Feb 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 20 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1503 |
To Albany Hancock 25 February [1853]
Summary
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 25 Feb [1853] |
Classmark: | J. Hancock 1886, p. 275 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1504 |
From Albany Hancock 25 February 1853
Summary
Discusses taxonomic relations of Alcippe.
Author: | Albany Hancock |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 25 Feb 1853 |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1505 |
letter | (6) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (6) |
Hancock, Albany | (4) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Wedgwood, Josiah, III | (1) |