To John Wickham Flower 23 March [1851]
Summary
Thanks JWF for [cirripede] fossils; one species seems from a new formation.
Regrets that his health makes it necessary to decline an invitation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Wickham Flower |
Date: | 23 Mar [1851] |
Classmark: | Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1075 |
To Josiah Wedgwood III [after 12 July 1851]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah Wedgwood, III |
Date: | [after 12 July 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 16 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1213 |
To Edward Forbes [1 May – 5 June 1851]
Summary
Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Forbes |
Date: | [1 May – 5 June 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1214 |
To John Richardson 4 November [1851]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Richardson |
Date: | 4 Nov [1851] |
Classmark: | J. A. Stargardt (dealers) (26–7 June 2007) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1267F |
To Charles Spence Bate 13 June [1851]
Summary
Thanks CSB for drawings of [cirripede] larva and for permission to cite unpublished paper ["On the development of the cirripedes", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 324–32]. Describes method of preserving specimens. Mentions Balanus common on tidal rocks at Tenby.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 13 June [1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 44 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1340 |
To C. S. Bate 18 August [1851]
Summary
Thanks CSB for cirripede larvae.
Has been unwell.
Cannot see transverse articulation referred to and does not believe in it.
Sends species synonyms.
Discussion of Chthamalinae.
Suggests using asphalt to seal specimen containers.
Comments on mouth of larva.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 18 Aug [1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 45 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1345 |
From J. D. Hooker [c. April 1851]
Summary
Wants catalogue of small islands that contain peculiar plants. Thinks complete floras of islands in various stages of depression [subsidence] would provide good data.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 100: 164 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1382 |
To John Edward Gray [January 1851]
Summary
Is coming tomorrow to see Lorenz Spengler on cirripedes [Auserlesne Schnecken, Muscheln und andre Schaalthiere (1758)] and the remaining sessile cirripedes in the collection. Has finished Balanus.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Edward Gray |
Date: | [Jan 1851] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 57) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1383 |
To Charles Lyell [8 April 1851]
Summary
Detailed critique of CL’s A manual of elementary geology [3d ed. (1851), used in editing 4th ed. (1852)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [8 Apr 1851] |
Classmark: | Kinnordy MS (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1384 |
To John Mumford 1 January 1851
Summary
Receipt for £3 5s, proceeds of a lecture, for the Down Coal and Clothing Club.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Mumford |
Date: | 1 Jan 1851 |
Classmark: | The Royal Society (LUB: D17) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1385 |
To Rowland Hill 6 January 1851
Summary
Drawings of the apteryx in three positions.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Rowland Hill, 2d Viscount Hill |
Date: | 6 Jan 1851 |
Classmark: | Sotheby’s, New York (dealers) (2006) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1385F |
To James de Carle Sowerby 21 January [1851]
Summary
CD is pleased with plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]; most corrections need only a touch. Requests revises soon and asks how much he owes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 21 Jan [1851] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1386 |
To Robert Fitch 24 January [1851]
Summary
Collection of fossil cirripedes to be returned. Would RF be willing to donate duplicates to the British Museum?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 24 Jan [1851] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1387 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 10 February [1851]
Summary
CD likes the plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)] except pl. I [Scalpellum], which calls for several revisions; he sees that not all corrections were made, but assumes they called for too extensive changes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 10 Feb [1851] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1388 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 13 February [1851]
Summary
CD appreciates JdeCS’s care. Sends specimens, noting points to be observed. He adds that the figures which have been most troublesome are those of which drawings were made [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 13 Feb [1851] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1389 |
To William Jackson Hooker 17 February [1851]
Summary
Encloses letter from J. D. Hooker. Glad he will soon be home.
Everyone will be astonished at oaks and birches of tropics.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | 17 Feb [1851] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1390 |
To J. de C. Sowerby 19 February [1851]
Summary
Comments on JdeCS’s plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]. Asks if JdeCS can lend him specimens of fossil Balanidae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James de Carle Sowerby |
Date: | 19 Feb [1851] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1391 |
To S. P. Woodward 3 March [1851]
Summary
Cirripede fossil specimens returned.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Samuel Pickworth Woodward |
Date: | 3 Mar [1851] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1392 |
To William Harris 4 March [1851]
Summary
Has finished the last proof of his monograph [Fossil Lepadidae] and returns WH’s specimens. Has named two new species from the collection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Harris |
Date: | 4 Mar [1851] |
Classmark: | The British Library (Add MS 42579: 233–4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1393 |
To J. W. Flower [11 March 1851?]
Summary
Thanks for specimens. Will return books on Monday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Wickham Flower |
Date: | [11 Mar 1851?] |
Classmark: | Skinner, Inc. (dealers) (15 November 2009) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1395F |
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