To Albany Hancock 25 December [1852]
Summary
Discusses capacity of some cirripedes to bore into rock.
Mentions Alcippe specimens borrowed from AH.
Relation of sexes in Ibla and Scalpellum.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 25 Dec [1852] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1495 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … barnacles. See the correspondence with Hancock early in 1853, especially letter to Albany …
- … Hancock, 30 March [1853] . See letter to Albany …
- … reply (see CD’s letter to Albany Hancock, 10 January [1853] ). In Living Cirripedia ( …
- … Hancock, 10 January [1853] . See Correspondence vol. 4, letter to Albany Hancock, [26 …
- … no such scales. See letter to C. S. Bate, 10 January [1853] , in which CD asked Charles …
- … letter to Albany Hancock, [21 September 1849] ). Believing it would form a separate family, CD deferred examining it until 1853, …
To W. D. Fox 10 August [1853]
Summary
Thanks WDF for writing so soon after his misfortunes, and again expresses sympathy.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 10 Aug [1853] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 85) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1527 |
To J. D. Dana 25 November [1852]
Summary
Thanks JDD for information.
Discusses Acasta sporillus.
Comments on review of first volume of Living Cirripedia [Am. J. Sci. 2d ser. 14 (1852): 125–7].
Asks JDD to examine Lerneidae.
Will read with interest the geographical discussion of Crustacea when JDD’s volume [Crustacea (1852–5)] appears. John Lubbock will purchase a copy.
Discusses error in Living Cirripedia.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 25 Nov [1852] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1492 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … John Lubbock’s copy in September 1853 (letters to J. D. Dana, 27 September [1853] and 10 …
- … letter to J. D. Dana, 29 December [1850] . Dana was preparing two quarto volumes on Crustacea ( Dana 1852 –3), supplemented by an atlas containing ninety-six plates published in 1855. This work was his third report for the United States Exploring Expedition, 1838–42. John Lubbock , aged 18 in 1852, devoted much of his free time that year to ‘working at Crustacea’ ( Hutchinson 1914 , 1: 33). In 1853 …
To Thomas Salt 15 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks for finding a purchaser for the Shrewsbury Street Act securities and encloses the Transfers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 15 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/2/30) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1506F |
To Edward Cresy 29 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses installation of watering system. Sent question to Gardeners’ Chronicle but, through EC’s kindness, superfluously.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 29 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1677 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … This and the letter to Edward Cresy, 15 May [1853] , are dated by their …
- … Gardeners’ Chronicle , [ c. 27 April 1853] . The letter to Cresy of the same date has not …
- … to CD’s letter to the Gardeners’ Chronicle , [ c. 27 April 1853] . After taking the water- …
- … 1853). The Darwins took a house in Eastbourne, Sussex, from 14 July to 4 August (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol. 5, Appendix I). See letter …
To Francis Galton 22 February [1855]
Summary
Thanks for FG’s note and trouble in searching out pigeons.
Is obliged to FG for obtaining C. J. Andersson’s offer of information about breeds of cattle in South Africa.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Francis Galton |
Date: | 22 Feb [1855] |
Classmark: | National Library of South Africa, Cape Town |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1554F |
To J. D. Hooker 8 April [1856]
Summary
Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Apr [1856] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 160 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1851 |
To F. C. Donders 15 July 1874
Summary
Discusses effect of atropine solution on eye,
and effect of phosphate of ammonia solution on gland of Drosera.
Would like to see work by T. W. Engelmann and possibly one by Dr De Ruyter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Frans Cornelis (Franciscus Cornelius) Donders |
Date: | 15 July 1874 |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9547 |
To J. D. Dana 10 October [1853]
Summary
Thanks JDD for copy of his Crustacea [1852–5]
and D. D. Owen’s Report [of a geological survey of Wisconsin, etc. (1852)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 10 Oct [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1534 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 7 June [1853]
Summary
Discusses JAHdeB’s drawing of a Verruca.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 7 June [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.102) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1517 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 [October 1853]
Summary
Returning JDH’s MS and books.
Reading Mrs Gaskell’s Ruth [1853].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 [Oct 1853] |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (1984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1535 |
To John Higgins 9 December 1857
Summary
Acknowledges receipt of £248 2s. 1d.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 9 Dec 1857 |
Classmark: | Dominic Winter Auctioneers (dealers) (10 April 2019, lot 138) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2181F |
Drummond, James. 1853. Extracts from various letters from Mr James Drummond, relating to the botany of Swan River. Hooker’s Journal of Botany and Kew Gardens Miscellany 5: 312–5, 344-7, 398–406.
From Leonard Darwin [after 14 February 1874]
Author: | Leonard Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [after 14 Feb 1874] |
Classmark: | DAR 90: 8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8709 |
Matches: 4 hits
- … the seven years between in 1853 and 1860 (see enclosure to letter from T. M. Coan, 14 …
- … letter : Year Native Population Annual percentage Decrease done (4 . 6)
✓ 1832 130,313 — 1836 108,579 1 . 969= 1 . 97 1850 82,203 4 . 759 1853 … - … letter from T. M. Coan, 14 February 1874 . Titus Munson Coan’s figures suggested that the native population of the Hawaiian Islands fell by 11,184 in the three years between 1850 and 1853 …
- … 1853 is more likely that for 1858— is the date right. —4 . 6 1836 —1 . 97 1850 —2 . 01 1860 —2 . 06 1866 —2 . 10 The 4 . 6 seems the only one out of the series L Darwin Top of letter : ‘ …
To J. D. Dana 6 December [1853]
Summary
Responds to JDD’s objections to his views on the three pairs of appendages in larvae of cirripedes. Reports observations which confirm his views.
Gives his confidential opinion of A. White, C. S. Bate, T. Bell, and W. Baird.
Interested in JDD’s observation that Crustacea are not most developed in the tropics. If JDD ever works it out either in number of species or rank, CD would be glad to have result.
Comments on article by Henri Milne-Edwards ["Crustacés", Ann. Sci. Nat. (Zool.) 18 (1852): 109–66].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 6 Dec [1853] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1542 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Dana 1852 –3. Probably from Dana 1853 (see letter to J. D. Dana, 10 October [1853] ). One …
- … In his letter to J. D. Dana, 27 September [1853] , CD wrote about John Lubbock : ‘if you …
- … letter to Adam White, 26 December 1851 ). In 1863, White became an inmate of a Scottish asylum ( DNB ). Bate and Westwood 1863–8, a treatise on the sessile-eyed Crustacea, intended to supplement Bell 1853 , …
From F. J. Cohn 31 December 1877
Summary
Sends details of H. H. R. Koch’s work on bacteria, including first photographs.
J. S. Burdon Sanderson’s and Koch’s collaboration on systemic fever.
Thinks movement of Francis Darwin’s Dipsacus filaments is an artifact.
Author: | Ferdinand Julius Cohn |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 31 Dec 1877 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 205 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11298 |
To Albany Hancock 30 March [1853]
Summary
Thanks AH for assistance. Compares Alcippe to South American boring cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 30 Mar [1853] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1509 |
To George Moultrie Salt 16 March [1867]
Summary
Thanks for note and returns signed paper. Asks that the payment be made to his bank account.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Moultrie Salt |
Date: | 16 Mar [1867] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5444F |
To Albany Hancock 10 January [1853]
Summary
Grateful for AH’s long letter and suggestions. Delighted at what he says about "complemental males". CD feared no one would believe in them but now that Owen, Dana, and AH accept them, he is content.
Agrees with AH on cross-impregnation; has collected facts on this head but has done nothing with them.
AH’s paper on Alcippe [Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 4 (1849): 305–14] caused him to lose sleep over its anomalous structure.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 10 Jan [1853] |
Classmark: | Historical Society of Pennsylvania |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1497 |
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experiments in Commentary
Was Darwin an ecologist?
Summary
One of the most fascinating aspects of Charles Darwin’s correspondence is the extent to which the experiments he performed at his home in Down, in the English county of Kent, seem to prefigure modern scientific work in ecology.
Matches: 1 hits
- … I gave two seeds to a confounded old cock, but his gizzard ground them up; at least I cd. not …