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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 Henry Norton Shaw, Secretary, Royal Geographical Society 17 May [1852]
Summary
Asks for catalogue and latest number of the Journal [of the Royal Geographical Society].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Henry Norton Shaw; Royal Geographical Society |
| Date: | 17 May [1852] |
| Classmark: | Royal Geographical Society |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1482 |
Author
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
Addressee
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Parker, J. W. | (1) |
| Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
| Shaw, H. N. | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (3) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Parker, J. W. | (1) |
| Royal Geographical Society | (1) |
| Shaw, H. N. | (1) |
