To ? 31 December [1852–3]
Summary
Responds to correspondent’s request for information about shells from the Coquimbo beds in Chile. Difficulty in deciding on age of deposits and species. Notes views of Alcide d’Orbigny.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 31 Dec [1852-3] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13872 |
To ? 19 December [1852 or 1854]
Summary
Ray Society has given CD 22 copies [of Living Cirripedia, vol. 1].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 19 Dec [1852 or 1854] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1464 |
To Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet 17 December [1852]
Summary
At request of Edward Forbes sends vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia and vol. 1 of Fossil Cirripedia.
Calls attention to sexual relations of Ibla and Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 17 Dec [1852] |
Classmark: | Ripon College, Lane Library |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1493 |
To John Higgins 18 December [1852]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions the rent.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 18 Dec [1852] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/58) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1494 |
To Albany Hancock 25 December [1852]
Summary
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.
Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.
Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 25 Dec [1852] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1495 |
letter | (5) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
Unidentified | (2) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Hancock, Albany | (1) |
Higgins, John | (1) |