To Richard Owen [November 1847–51]
Summary
"I had not heard before of Whench [Whewell?] having scolded you; I am rather glad of it …
What a grand number of novelties Hooker no doubt will bring home".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Nov 1847–51] |
| Classmark: | John K. Lattimer (private collection) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13833 |
To Richard Owen 23 December [1847–54]
Summary
Is searching for a tooth of Carcharias which he might have left with RO.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 23 Dec [1847-54] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13834 |
To Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe 5 May [1847]
Summary
Sends parcel of specimens for R. W. Bunsen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Adolf Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe |
| Date: | 5 May [1847] |
| Classmark: | Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel (Briefsammlung Viewig 346, 346a) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1569 |
To Richard Owen [6 March 1847]
Summary
A specimen of Machairodus offered for sale by F. J. Muñiz.
Discusses possible publication in England of paper by Muñiz describing the skeleton.
Sends pamphlet on scarlatina in the Pampas.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [6 Mar 1847] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/192) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-938 |
To Leonard Jenyns 21 [January 1847]
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of [The naturalist’s pocket] almanack edited by LJ. Suggests some improvements.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
| Date: | 21 [Jan 1847] |
| Classmark: | Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1055 |
To Mary Elizabeth Lyell [4 October 1847]
Summary
Thanks Mrs Lyell for barnacle specimens.
Mentions Agassiz’s classification of saurians.
Discusses letter from Chambers on "roads" in Scottish glens; views of Agassiz and Buckland on the glens.
Is reading Hugh Miller [First impressions of England and its people (1847)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Mary Elizabeth Horner; Mary Elizabeth Lyell |
| Date: | [4 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.63) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1122 |
To Emma Darwin [31 October 1847]
Summary
Has had two bad days with boils.
Is reading Last days of Pompeii [Edward Bulwer Lytton (1834)].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [31 Oct 1847] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 26 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1132 |
| letter | (107) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (99) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (4) |
| Chambers, Robert | (1) |
| Royle, J. F. | (1) |
| Sharpe, Daniel | (1) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (34) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (4) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (107) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (38) |
| Lyell, Charles | (8) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Royle, J. F. | (5) |
