To J. D. Dana 5 December [1849]
Summary
Comments on JDD’s book [Geology (1849)]. Is sending copies of various geological papers. Their agreements and differences on coral reefs, volcanic geology, denudation, and subsidence.
Comments on Robert Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Asks to borrow cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
| Date: | 5 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1276 |
To Charles Lyell [7? December 1849]
Summary
Continues discussion of Dana’s Geology [1849]. Comments on dikes of Hawaiian volcanoes and Dana’s view of craters of denudation. Compares role of sea and rivers in forming valleys. Criticises Dana’s treatment of CD’s account of coral reefs.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
| Date: | [7? Dec 1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.88) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1277 |
To Abraham Clapham 10 December [1849]
Summary
Comments on AC’s experiments on Phlox and Mimulus.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Abraham Clapham |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.86) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1278 |
To John Higgins 10 December [1849]
Summary
Discusses his accounts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 10 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/29) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1279 |
To Albany Hancock 25 December [1849]
Summary
Discusses the new genus, Alcippe, described by AH ["Notice of the occurrence on the British coast of a burrowing barnacle", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14]. Comments on Lithotrya, Clitia, and Anatifa. Discusses cirripede larvae. Asks which Mollusca specimens AH wishes to borrow.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
| Date: | 25 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.87) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1280 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 30 December [1849]
Summary
CD is distressed that JS’s shipment of fossils has been lost: "of all the Cirripedes in the world, I most wish to dissect the Alepas squalicola". Welcomes JS’s offer to send some northern recent species. CD finds great confusion in the current classification of cirripedes in British museums; different genera are made into one species, mere varieties are made into distinct species. If JS would give him some named common northern species, it would be of great assistance.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 30 Dec [1849] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1281 |
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 George Ransome 27 [August 1849]
Summary
Regrets that state of his health prevents acceptance of invitation [to be present at inauguration of J. S. Henslow as President of Ipswich Museum in Dec 1850].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | George Ransome |
| Date: | 27 [Aug 1849] |
| Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1335 |
To Emily Harriet Stanhope 9 August [1849]
Summary
Accepts EHS’s invitation for Thursday.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emily Harriet Kerrison, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope; Emily Harriet Stanhope, Lady Mahon, Countess Stanhope, Lady Stanhope |
| Date: | 9 Aug [1849] |
| Classmark: | Kent History and Library Centre (U1590 C481/18) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1249F |
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 |
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| Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
| Clapham, Abraham | (1) |
| Covington, Syms | (1) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
| Cuming, Hugh | (2) |
| Dana, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
| Daubrée, Auguste | (1) |
| Fitch, Robert | (1) |
| Forchhammer, J. G. | (3) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Gould, A. A. | (1) |
| Hancock, Albany | (4) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
| Higgins, John | (2) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
| Horner, M. E. | (1) |
| Kerrison, E. H. | (1) |
| Lovén, Sven | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (7) |
| Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
| Milne-Edwards, Henri | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Murray, John (b) | (2) |
| Müller, Johannes | (1) |
| Owen, Richard | (2) |
| Ransome, George | (2) |
| Reeve, L. A. | (1) |
| Salt, Thomas | (3) |
| Simmonds, P. L. | (1) |
| Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
| Stanhope, E. H. | (1) |
| Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
| Strickland, H. E. | (4) |
| Swale and Wilson | (1) |
| Thompson, William (a) | (1) |
| Unidentified | (1) |
| Weld, C. R. | (1) |
| Whitby, M. A. T. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (71) |
| Lyell, Charles | (7) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
| Fox, W. D. | (4) |
| Hancock, Albany | (4) |
