To Albany Hancock [26 January – March 1850]
Summary
Discusses mollusc specimens and related notes sent to AH. Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses various cirripede species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | [26 Jan – Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1311 |
To Albany Hancock [31 March or 7 April 1850]
Summary
AH may keep CD’s MS as long as he likes.
Comments on various cirripede species. "I mean now to continue at Systematic Part till I have finished."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | [31 Mar or 7 Apr] 1850 |
Classmark: | The New York Public Library. Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. The Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1316 |
To Albany Hancock 15 [April 1850]
Summary
Thanks AH for specimens of cirripedes. Believes all species of Lithotrya bore.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 15 [Apr 1850] |
Classmark: | J. Hancock (1886): 258–9 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1321 |
To Albany Hancock 12 May [1850]
Summary
Mentions AH’s ["On the boring of the Mollusca into rocks", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 2 (1848): 225–48]. Discusses anatomy and habits of Lithotrya.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 12 May [1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.93) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1327 |
To Albany Hancock 25 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock. Describes progress of his research.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 25 Dec [1850] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1378 |
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