From Richard Owen 12 November 1859
Summary
Will welcome CD’s work [Origin] with a "close & continuous perusal".
Believes in the "operation of existing influences or causes in the ordained becoming and incoming of living species" and so could not regard CD’s attempt to demonstrate the nature of such influences as "heterodox".
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 12 Nov 1859 |
| Classmark: | Shrewsbury School, Taylor Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2526 |
From Richard Owen [7 August 1837]
Summary
Dissected beak of Rhynchops shows no extensive innervation. But beak may nevertheless be a sensitive organ of touch as CD suggests.
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [7 Aug 1837] |
| Classmark: | Birds 144 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-371 |
From Richard Owen 11 June 1839
Summary
Thanks CD effusively [for Journal of researches] – "the most delightful book in my collection".
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 11 June 1839 |
| Classmark: | DAR 204: 183 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-519 |
From Richard Owen [17 September 1841?]
Summary
CD and [Emma Darwin] are invited to "a holiday musical evening".
| Author: | Richard Owen |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [17 Sept 1841?] |
| Classmark: | The Royal College of Surgeons of England (MS0456/1) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-608F |
To Thomas Spring Rice [before 7 July 1838]
Summary
Express their concern that the offer for sale to the British Museum, by G. A. Mantell and Thomas Hawkins, of two valuable collections, has been declined.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin; William Buckland; Adam Sedgwick; John Phillips; William Whewell; Roderick Impey Murchison, 1st baronet; Charles Lyell, 1st baronet; Charles Stokes; William John Hamilton; Edward Stanley; Richard Owen; William Clift; Charles Babbage; John Bostock; Peter Mark Roget; John Taylor; Spencer Joshua Alwyne Compton, 2d Marquess of Northampton; William John Broderip |
| Addressee: | Thomas Spring Rice |
| Date: | [before 7 July 1838] |
| Classmark: | House of Commons papers; accounts and papers, 1837/38, XXXVI, 307 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-421F |
Document type
| letter | (5) |
Author
| Owen, Richard | |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
| Buckland, William | (1) |
| Clift, William | (1) |
| Compton, S. J. A. | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
| Hamilton, W. J. | (1) |
| Lyell, Charles | (1) |
| Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
| Phillips, John | (1) |
| Roget, P. M. | (1) |
| Sedgwick, Adam | (1) |
| Stanley, Edward | (1) |
| Stokes, Charles | (1) |
| Taylor, John | (1) |
| Whewell, William | (1) |
Addressee
| Darwin, C. R. | (4) |
| Spring Rice, Thomas | (1) |
Correspondent
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Owen, Richard | (5) |
| Babbage, Charles | (1) |
| Bostock, John | (1) |
| Broderip, W. J. | (1) |
