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To Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell   3 April [1856]

Summary

Reminds WBDM of his promise of information about the quartz boulders and an iceberg with fragment of rock seen in southern ocean.

Sends other questions [on separate sheet (missing)] which WBDM will think ridiculous, but all bear on plants and animals under domestication.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Walter Baldock Durrant Mantell
Date:  3 Apr [1856]
Classmark:  Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand (Mantell papers, MS-Papers-0083-268)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1848

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To Edward Cresy   [May 1848]

Summary

May go to Paris next summer about barnacles.

Unable to appreciate second volume of Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos [1848].

Recommends review by Sir John Herschel [Edinburgh Rev. 87 (1848): 170–229].

Recommends book by Mary Somerville [Physical geography (1848)].

Mentions article [on species] by M. E. Chevreul [Ann. Sci. Nat. (Bot.) 3d ser. 6 (1846): 142–214].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:  [May 1848]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 305
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1171

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  • … To Edward Cresy   [May 1848] …
  • … DAR 143: 305 Charles Robert Darwin Down [May 1848] Edward Cresy, Jr …
  • … quelque renom. 2d ed. Paris. Somerville, Mary. 1848. Physical geography. 2 vols. London. …
  • … second volume of Alexander von Humboldt’s Cosmos [1848]. Recommends review by Sir …
  • … John Herschel [ Edinburgh Rev. 87 (1848): 170–229]. …
  • … by Mary Somerville [ Physical geography (1848)]. Mentions article [on species] by M. E. …
  • … Dated by the publication date of Somerville 1848  and on the assumption that CD wrote soon …
  • … See letter to Edward Cresy, [before May 1848? ] . No such visit was made. CD never left …
  • … 1927–96. Herschel, John Frederick William. 1848. Review of Alexander von Humbold’s Kosmos …
  • … scientific, contribution. Mary Somerville’s book ( Somerville 1848 ) was published late in …
  • … April ( Publishers’ Circular , 1 May 1848, p.  147). Michel Eugène Chevreul . See …
  • … refers to the second volume, published in 1848, which he recorded having read in May (DAR …
  • … Society of Antiquaries ( DNB ). Herschel 1848 . The review appeared in the January issue …

To Richard Owen   [2 April 1848]

Summary

Apologises for length of notes of advice for microscopic work.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  [2 Apr 1848]
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Hyde 77: 2. 82. 1)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1167F

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  • … To Richard Owen   [2 April 1848] …
  • … University (MS Hyde 77: 2. 82. 1) Charles Robert Darwin Down [2 Apr 1848] Richard Owen …
  • … investigating their internal structures. By May 1848, CD himself had become adept enough …
  • … vol. 4, letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 and n. 10). Owen may have sent CD a copy of …
  • … warm blood’; he had commenced the lectures in March 1848 ( Rupke 1985 , pp. 240 and 243). …
  • … 6, below). The second Sunday after 21 March 1848, the day CD sent off the chapter, was 2 …
  • … a section in his letter to Owen of [26 March 1848] ( Correspondence vol. 4). CD’s strength …
  • … expressed in his letter to Owen of [26 March 1848] ( Correspondence vol. 4). Joseph Dalton …
  • … Herschel ed. 1849, pp. 156–95) on 20 March 1848, and sent it to John Frederick William …
  • … vol. 7, Supplement, letter to W. A. B. Hamilton, 28 March [1848] and nn. 2, 3 and 5. …
  • … CD had mentioned going to London on Monday (presumably 3 April 1848) in his letter to J. …
  • … S. Henslow, [1 April 1848] ( Correspondence vol. 4); although there is no evidence that CD …
  • … the meeting in his letter to Owen, [26 March 1848] ( Correspondence vol. 4). He probably …
  • … vol. 4, letter to J. S. Henslow, [1 April 1848] and n. 7). CD probably wanted to read the …

To J. D. Hooker   10 May 1848

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Confident of species theory as result of applying it to cirripede sexual systems.

CD’s opinion of E. Blyth. JDH should meet Blyth, inquire about domesticated varieties, study insular flora, solve coal-plant problem.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  10 May 1848
Classmark:  DAR 114: 112
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1174

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  • … To J.  D. Hooker   10 May 1848
  • … DAR 114: 112 Charles Robert Darwin Down 10 May 1848 Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … Press. 1985–. De la Beche, Henry Thomas. 1848. Anniversary address of the president. …
  • … J.  D. Hooker, 20 February – 16 [March] 1848 . Hooker’s Himalayan journals were eventually …
  • … 5 April 1848 at a meeting of the Geological Society. CD, however, did not attend (Council …
  • … at a meeting of the Royal Society on 23 March 1848 that Richard Owen had misunderstood …
  • … the structure of belemnites ( Mantell 1848 ). Owen defended his work, for which he had …
  • … See letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] . See Living Cirripedia (1851):  49–55. CD …
  • … see letter to J.  S. Henslow, [1 April 1848] , n.  6. This is the first description of CD’ …
  • … In letter to J.  S. Henslow, [1 April 1848] , CD mentioned finding little larva-like males …
  • … and in letter to J.  D. Hooker, 6 October [1848] , he mentioned a ‘far more curious case’ …
  • … see letter to A.  C. Ramsay, 4 February [1848] , and ‘Journal’ ( Correspondence vol.  4, …
  • … See letter to Francis Boott, 20 August 1848 . Henry Thomas De la Beche was president of …
  • … his anniversary address ( De la Beche 1848 ). James Clark Ross , captain of the Antarctic …
  • … served as assistant-surgeon (see De la Beche 1848 , pp. lxxxiii). Joseph Beete Jukes , who …
  • … of which De la Beche was director-general (see De la Beche 1848 , pp. xxxviii, xlv, lxiv, …
  • … xc). Jukes and Selwyn 1848, read on …

Smith, James. 1848. On scratched boulders. [Read 19 April 1848 and 17 May 1848.] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 5 (1849): 17–20

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  • … Smith, James. 1848. On scratched boulders. [ …
  • … Read 19 April 1848 and …
  • … 17 May 1848. ] Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 5 (1849): 17–20 SF5 …

To Robert Chambers   [June 1848]

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Congratulates RC on his work on Scottish sea-margins [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].

Discusses Glen Roy; Milne staggered him in favour of the glacier view, but now his opinion has reverted.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Chambers
Date:  [June 1848]
Classmark:  DAR 50: C1–C2
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1182

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To Robert Chambers   [June 1848] …
  • … DAR 50: C1–C2 Charles Robert Darwin Down [June 1848] Robert Chambers …
  • … on Scottish sea-margins [ Ancient sea-margins (1848)]. Discusses Glen Roy; Milne staggered …
  • … Bibliography Chambers, Robert. 1848. Ancient sea margins. Edinburgh. Collected papers : …
  • … evidently just received a copy of Chambers 1848 , published between 30 May and 13 June ( …
  • … Publishers’ Circular , no. 258, 15 June 1848). …
  • … Chambers 1848 . CD’s copy is in the Darwin Library–Down. See letter from Robert Chambers …
  • … to David Milne, 20 [September 1847]. Chambers 1848 , p.  115. Collected papers 1: 112. See …

To Edward Cresy   [5 or 12 July 1848]

Summary

Has written to William Buckland, recommending EC for position.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Date:  [5 or 12] July 1848
Classmark:  DAR 143: 306
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1188

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  • … To Edward Cresy   [5 or 12 July 1848] …
  • … DAR 143: 306 Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 July 1848 12 …
  • … July 1848 Edward Cresy, Jr …
  • … Commission of Sewers, see the London newspaper the Globe , 9 June and 15 July 1848. …
  • … letter from William Buckland, 15 July 1848 . William Buckland was a member of the newly …
  • … See also letter to Charles Lyell, [16 June 1848] . For detailed accounts of some of the …

To Francis Boott    20 August 1848

Summary

CD will write to A. A. Gould for aid. Thanks for sympathy and assistance about chloroform.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Francis Boott
Date:  20 Aug 1848
Classmark:  James Cummins, Bookseller (dealer) (website viewed 7 February 2012)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1195

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  • … To Francis Boott    20 August 1848
  • … use of chloroform as a remedy for toothache ( ibid. , letter to J. B. Innes, [1848? ]). …
  • … viewed 7 February 2012) Charles Robert Darwin Athenaeum Club 20 Aug 1848 Francis Boott …
  • … Athenæum Club Saturday | Aug t  20. 1848. My Dear D r . Boott. Since I saw you, I have …
  • … 4, letter to A. A. Gould, 3 September [1848] . CD wanted to borrow Augustus Addison Gould’ …
  • … during the birth of Francis Darwin on 16 August 1848. See Correspondence vol. 4, letter …
  • … to J.  D.  Hooker, 10 May 1848 , where CD mentioned that it would be used. CD also …

To Richard Owen   [April? 1848]

Summary

Pleased at RO’s praise of Coral reefs.

Has read with very great interest RO’s "Report on the archetype" [Rep. BAAS 16 (1846): 169–340]. RO should give name to every letter or number in his woodcuts.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Richard Owen
Date:  [Apr? 1848]
Classmark:  R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 209
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-997

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  • … To Richard Owen   [April? 1848] …
  • … R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 209 Charles Robert Darwin Down [Apr? 1848] Richard Owen …
  • … publicly available at the beginning of April 1848 (see n.  4, below). In Owen’s chapter on …
  • … of researches 2d ed. , pp.  465–82. R.  Owen 1848 , originally a report delivered at the …
  • … and published as a separate volume between 14 and 29 March 1848 ( Publishers’ Circular , …
  • … 1 April 1848). …
  • … On 1 January 1848, CD recorded that he had read all the reports of the British Association …
  • … London: John Murray. 1845. Owen, Richard. 1848. On the archetypes and homologies of the …

To Charles Lyell   [21? June 1848]

Summary

Comments on apology by Chambers for using some of CD’s material without acknowledgment in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Lyell, 1st baronet
Date:  [21? June 1848]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.75)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1181

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  • … To Charles Lyell   [21? June 1848] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.75) Charles Robert Darwin Down [21? June 1848] Charles Lyell, 1st baronet …
  • … The Wednesday after letter to Charles Lyell, [16 June 1848] . …
  • … in discussing Glen Roy. His opinion of Chambers’ book [ Ancient sea-margins (1848)]. …

To J. W. Lubbock   [December 1848–9]

Summary

Thanks JWL for the use of a schoolroom.

Arranges to meet JWL’s son [John] to discuss use of microscope.

Mentions illness.

Thanks JWL for his paper ["Shooting stars", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 (1848): 81–8, 170–2; 35 (1849): 356–7].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John William Lubbock, 3d baronet
Date:  [Dec 1848–9]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.77)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1212

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  • … To J. W. Lubbock   [December 1848–9] …
  • … Mss.B.D25.77) Charles Robert Darwin unstated [Dec 1848–9] John William Lubbock, 3d baronet …
  • … the astronomer and mathematician. Lubbock 1848–9 . …
  • … stars", London Edinburgh & Dublin Philos. Mag. 32 (1848): 81–8, 170–2; 35 (1849): 356–7]. …
  • … Bibliography Lubbock, John William. 1848–9. On shooting stars. Philosophical Magazine and …
  • … See the letter to Harriet Lubbock, [December 1848 – 1849] . Probably John Couch Adams , …

To George Robert Waterhouse   [6 February 1848]

Summary

Invites GRW to a dinner party with other scientists.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Robert Waterhouse
Date:  [6 Feb 1848]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.69)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1154

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  • … To George Robert Waterhouse   [6 February 1848] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25.69) Charles Robert Darwin Down [6 Feb 1848] George Robert Waterhouse …
  • … from the relationship to letters to A.  C. Ramsay, 4 February [1848] , and to Richard …
  • … Owen , [4 February 1848]. Robert Hermann Schomburgk , who had recently returned …
  • … an exploring expedition to British Guiana. In 1848 he was appointed consul to St Domingo. …

From J. E. Gray   26 August 1848

Summary

Is sorry that any person has misunderstood his intentions. JEG read his papers on cirripedes at the Zoological Society without intending to interfere with CD’s work; he merely wished to record his old observations, made before CD commenced his study, and thought that by so doing he was helping CD. [See "Description of a new species of Anatifa" and "On Thaliella", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1848): 44.]

Author:  John Edward Gray
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  26 Aug 1848
Classmark:  Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF ZOO/205/7/254-255)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1196

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  • … From J.  E. Gray   26 August 1848
  • … DF ZOO/205/7/254-255) John Edward Gray British Museum 26 Aug 1848 Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … of a new species of Anatifa " and "On Thaliella ", Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. (1848): 44. ] …
  • … E. Gray, [5 or 6 February 1848] . The two papers were printed on a single page ( …
  • … Proceedings of the Zoological Society for 1848, but Gray may have made some changes in the …
  • … of the Zoological Society of London on 14 March 1848 ( J.  E. Gray 1848a , 1848b). CD was …
  • … to anticipate his work (see letter to J.  E. Gray, 29 August [1848] ). See letter to J.   …
  • … Brit. Mus 26 Aug 1848 My Dear Darwin I am very sorry that any person should have so …

To J. D. Hooker   6 October [1848]

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CD makes progress with barnacles. Describes "supplemental" males in detail. In working out metamorphosis, their crustacean homologies followed automatically.

CD opposes appending first describer’s name to specific name.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  6 Oct [1848]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 112a
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1202

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  • … To J.  D. Hooker   6 October [1848] …
  • … DAR 114: 112a Charles Robert Darwin Down 6 Oct [1848] Joseph Dalton Hooker …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Dixon, Edmund Saul. 1848. Ornamental and domestic poultry: their …
  • … Letter from J.  D. Hooker, 24 July [1848] . Hooker’s letters to William Jackson Hooker and …
  • … particular reference is probably to W.  J. Hooker ed. 1848; but see also K.  M. Lyell ed. …
  • … Lyell reported in a letter dated 2 August 1848 that J.  D. Hooker had found three new …
  • … of General Sir C.  Ashworth, on 31 August 1848 (Wilson and Geikie 1861 , p.  444). CD is …
  • … resided there for the first time in September 1848. Lyell described part of his visit in a …
  • … author of a book on ornamental poultry (1848) that was much quoted by CD in Variation . …
  • … the two men has, however, survived. In Dixon 1848 , an annotated copy of which is in the …
  • … illustrations. CD recorded on 17 September 1848 that he had completed reading this work ( …
  • … in letter to J.  D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 . The fact that these organisms contained ‘ …

To J. E. Gray   5 [or 6] February 1848

Summary

Thanks the Trustees of the British Museum for entrusting to him the collection of Cirripedia and allowing him to disarticulate one specimen of each species.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Edward Gray
Date:  [5 or 6] Feb 1848
Classmark:  British Museum (Central Archive ‘Original Papers’, vol. XXXIX)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1153

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  • … To J.  E. Gray   5 [or 6] February 1848
  • … Central Archive ‘Original Papers’, vol. XXXIX) Charles Robert Darwin Down 5 Feb 1848 6 …
  • … Feb 1848 John Edward Gray …
  • … to the trustees with a note, dated 8 February 1848, in which he wrote: ‘I do not see how I …
  • … Museum (Natural History), Zoology Department, Report 1848: 87; Gunther 1979 , p.  57). …

To Robert Chambers   [14 February – 20 March 1848]

Summary

Thanks RC for information on hand-level; he has recommended it in his "Instructions" ["Geology", Collected papers 1: 227–50].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Robert Chambers
Date:  [14 Feb – 20 Mar 1848]
Classmark:  Watt Library, Greenock
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1160

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  • … To Robert Chambers   [14 February – 20 March 1848] …
  • … Watt Library, Greenock Charles Robert Darwin Down [14 Feb – 20 Mar 1848] Robert Chambers …
  • … Roy’ , Collected papers 1: 89–137). See letter to Charles Lyell, [16 June 1848] , for CD’s …
  • … comments on Chambers 1848 . …
  • … Bibliography Chambers, Robert. 1848. Ancient sea margins. Edinburgh. Collected papers : …
  • … any point with surprising accuracy’. Chambers 1848 . Chambers defended the view that large …

From Edward Cresy   30 October 1860

Summary

Sends CD passages from A. S. Taylor’s book [On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence and medicine, 2d ed. (1859)], citing smallest portions of poisons that are chemically detectable. "Drosera beats the chemists hollow."

Author:  Edward Cresy, Jr
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  30 Oct 1860
Classmark:  DAR 58.1: 6, 58.2: 49–52
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-2968

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  • … a piece of copper wire would be discoloured by the mixture. See Taylor 1848 , p.   …
  • … 352. Taylor 1848 , p.   …
  • … 354. Taylor 1848 , p.  409. …
  • … Corrosive sublimate is mercuric chloride. Taylor 1848 , p.  685. …
  • … 27: 313–21. Taylor, Alfred Swaine. 1848. On poisons in relation to medical jurisprudence …
  • … Taylor 1848 . Cresy refers to the remark made by August Wilhelm von Hofmann in the letter …
  • … Edward Cresy, 13 October 1860, n.  3. Taylor 1848 , p.  351. Edgar Hugo Emil Reinsch was a …
  • … s work on the detection of poisons, see Coley 1991. Taylor 1848 , p.  305. Thomas Stewart …
  • … Traill was professor of medical jurisprudence at Edinburgh University . Taylor 1848 , p.   …
  • … 339. Taylor 1848 , p.  341. For James Marsh’s test for arsenic, see the letter from A.   …

To William Alexander Baillie Hamilton    28 March [1848]

Summary

Sir John Herschel has not received the parcel of "Scientific Instructions", which was posted on the 15th. He requests an accurate search at the Admiralty.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  William Alexander Baillie Hamilton
Date:  28 Mar [1848]
Classmark:  The National Archives (TNA) (ADM/5580 009075)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1166A

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  • … To William Alexander Baillie Hamilton    28 March [1848] …
  • … 009075) Charles Robert Darwin Down 28 Mar [1848] William Alexander Baillie Hamilton …
  • … letter bears an official stamp ‘ MAR.  28 1848’. CD’s letter was also circulated, but the …
  • … to Herschel. See Correspondence vol.  4, letter to J.  F.  W.  Herschel, 7 May [1848] . …
  • … 1849). CD completed his chapter on 20 March 1848 (see Correspondence vol.  4, Appendix I). …
  • … 4, letter to J.  F.  W.  Herschel, [21 March 1848] ). George Eden , Earl of Auckland, was …
  • … A letter from Herschel, dated 23 March 1848, instructing Hamilton to search for the parcel …

To Gardeners’ Chronicle   13 July [1848]

Summary

Reports on the effect of potato blight in his crop.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Gardeners’ Chronicle
Date:  13 July [1848]
Classmark:  Gardeners’ Chronicle, 22 July 1848, p. 491
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1189F

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  • … To Gardeners’ Chronicle    13 July [1848] …
  • … Gardeners’ Chronicle , 22 July 1848, p. …
  • … 491 Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 July [1848] Gardeners’ Chronicle …

From Susan Elizabeth Darwin   [1848?]

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[Valediction only.] CD note on verso: Athenaeum/48/p. 839 "E. Forbes on genera being continuous in time––good––fact".

Author:  Susan Elizabeth Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Robert Darwin
Date:  [1848?]
Classmark:  DAR 205.10: 96
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1145

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  • … From Susan Elizabeth Darwin   [1848? ] …
  • … DAR 205.10: 96 Susan Elizabeth Darwin unstated [1848? ] Charles Robert Darwin …
  • … at this again—’. The references are to Athenæum , no. 1086, 19 August 1848, p.  839; and …
  • … no. 1062, 4 March 1848, p.  247. …
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Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles

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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…

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  • … on geology ( letter to J. F. W. Herschel, 4 February [1848] ). Letters between Darwin and Richard …
  • … on board ship ( see letter to Richard Owen, [26 March 1848] ). Darwin’s chapter plainly calls on …
  • … a notion which was roundly criticised by William Hopkins in 1848. Hopkins maintained that transport …
  • … ‘desideratum’ ( letter to J. L. R. Agassiz, 22 October 1848 ), was accepted by Darwin, and he …
  • … the group, turned over some notes he had made, and, early in 1848, obtained permission for Darwin to …
  • … & Species theory al Diabolo together During 1848, Darwin examined the genera  Ibla …
  • … is all gospel.—’ ( letter to J. D. Hooker, 10 May 1848 ). Once Darwin had decided to …
  • … this period, especially in 1847 and during the last half of 1848 and the beginning of 1849. When his …