To Daniel Sharpe 23 August [1848?]
Summary
Thanks for note.
Glad DS sticks to cleavage and foliation question. Bernhard Studer one of few to take correct view on subject.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Daniel Sharpe |
| Date: | 23 Aug [1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 147: 47 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-991 |
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 |
To Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz 22 October 1848
Summary
Thanks LA and sends thanks to A. A. Gould for specimens. Describes principal findings of his research on cirripedes. Is obliged for information Joseph Leidy gave about cirripede eyes. Describes anatomical features and chief aspects of growth. Describes discovery of parasitic males and a species parasitic upon other cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Jean Louis Rodolphe (Louis) Agassiz |
| Date: | 22 Oct 1848 |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (MS Am 1419: 274) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1205 |
To Emma Darwin [20–1 May 1848]
Summary
Reports on his father’s health, and Catherine’s. CD, himself, has been a little sick.
Hensleigh [Wedgwood] thinks he has settled the free-will question – "we have none whatsoever".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Emma Wedgwood; Emma Darwin |
| Date: | [20–1 May 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 210.8: 27 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1176 |
To J. S. Henslow 2 July [1848]
Summary
Criticises lecturing system in education and emphasis on classics. Has forgotten all his classical knowledge.
Asks JSH’s help in naming cirripedes, on which he is working. Believes he has made "some very curious points".
Expects a sixth child [Francis] in August.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
| Date: | 2 July [1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 93: A18–A20 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1189 |
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- … Francis Darwin was born on 16 August 1848. Henslow 1848b, in which a syllabus for a course of botany lectures at Cambridge University was put forward. Henslow wrote this in anticipation of university reforms that would give more recognition to the natural sciences in the curriculum ( Jenyns 1862 , pp. 170–1). CD’s copy is in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Paley 1794 was one of the books set for CD’s B.A. examination at Cambridge University in 1831. See Correspondence vol. 1, letter …
| letter | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
| Sharpe, Daniel | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (5) |
| Agassiz, Louis | (1) |
| Boott, Francis | (1) |
| Darwin, Emma | (1) |
| Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
