To a librarian [early September? 1854]
Summary
Will return all but two volumes; requests four titles, including Pepys’s Diaries, but not the first volume.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Librarian |
Date: | [early Sept? 1854] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Surrogate RP 9763) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1592F |
To John Lubbock [September 1854]
Summary
Sends beetle he cannot identify.
Reading J. O. Westwood [Introduction to the modern classification of insects (1839–40)] has reawakened his passion for entomology.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Lubbock, 4th baronet and 1st Baron Avebury |
Date: | [Sept 1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 263: 8 (EH 88206457) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1585 |
To J. S. Henslow 2 September [1854]
Summary
Sends his comments on JSH’s MS on cirripedes ["On typical objects in natural history", Rep. BAAS (1855): 108–26].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 2 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | California State Library, San Francisco, Sutro Library (Crocker collection: folder #11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1586 |
To T. H. Huxley 2 September [1854]
Summary
Second Living Cirripedia volume published. Asks THH’s advice on presentation copies for continental naturalists.
THH’s review of Vestiges of creation in [Br. & Foreign Med.-Chir. Rev. 13 (1854)]. CD is almost as unorthodox on species as the author of Vestiges, but hopes not quite so unphilosophical.
Hopes L. Agassiz was sounder on embryological stages than THH thinks.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 2 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 8) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1587 |
To J. D. Hooker 7 September [1854]
Summary
On individuality.
Huxley’s review exquisite, but too severe on Vestiges; sorry for ridicule of Agassiz’s embryonic fishes.
Stonesfield mammals.
J. O. Westwood deserves Royal Society Medal.
Will begin species work in a few days.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 7 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1588 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 7 September [1854]
Summary
Offers to send collection of cirripedes to Copenhagen Museum in return for assistance in his research. Mentions publication of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 7 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to); Natural History Museum of Denmark |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1589 |
To T. H. Huxley 8 September [1854]
Summary
Agrees with THH on metamorphosis of branchiae of Balanus, and on his view of Owen.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 8 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 11) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1590 |
To A. A. Gould 9 September [1854]
Summary
Returns cirripede specimens to AAG. Encloses specimens for Louis Agassiz in same box.
Since AAG is a member of the Ray Society, will not send him a copy of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
Date: | 9 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 225) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1591 |
To T. H. Huxley 13 September [1854]
Summary
Thanks for help on presentation copies of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
Suggests he examine cementing apparatus of Balanus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 13 Sept [1854] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 16) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1592 |
From Richard Thomas Lowe 19 September 1854
Summary
The land shells, both fossil and recent, of Madeira and Porto Santo have features peculiar to them, so RTL would have no difficulty in identifying them.
Author: | Richard Thomas Lowe |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Sept 1854 |
Classmark: | DAR 205.9: 392 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1593 |
letter | (10) |
Darwin, C. R. | (9) |
Lowe, R. T. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Huxley, T. H. | (3) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Hooker, J. D. | (1) |