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 A. A. Gould 8 April [1850]
Summary
Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
Date: | 8 Apr [1850] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 228) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1320 |
From J. D. Hooker [4 November 1853]
Summary
Royal Society votes its Royal Medal for 1853 to CD. JDH reports the debate and vote at the Royal Society Council.
Honoured for Coral reefs
and Cirripedia.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [4 Nov 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 104: 186–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1539 |
To Charles Lyell 28 [September 1860]
Summary
Discusses extinction of ammonites.
Discusses August Krohn’s cirripede research and Krohn’s correction of his own work.
Discusses origin of dog in connection with origin of man.
Comments on the guinea-pig in South America.
Notes K. E. von Baer’s view of species.
Mentions difficulty of crossing rabbit and hare.
Agrees with Hooker’s views on variation under cultivation and in nature.
Regrets use of term "natural selection", would now use "Natural Preservation".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | 28 [Sept 1860] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.229) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-2931 |
To J. D. Dana 24 February [1850]
Summary
Regrets delay in sending pamphlets for JDD.
Thanks him for information concerning cirripedes.
Sends thanks to Charles Pickering for information about plant distribution.
Discusses boring species of cirripedes.
Believes Harry D. S. Goodsir mistaken about parasites on Balanus ["Observations on organs of generation in Crustacea", Edinburgh New Philos. J. 36 (1843–4): 183–6]. In fact parasites are the males of the species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 24 Feb [1850] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1305 |
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 24 August [1854]
Summary
Can AH spare Alcippe specimens for British Museum?
C. S. Bate has found Alcippe off Plymouth.
Discusses returning specimens to AH.
Owes to AH the discussion of powers of excavation of Verruca in Living Cirripedia [vol. 2 (1854)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Albany Hancock |
Date: | 24 Aug [1854] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1580 |
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 J. D. Dana 5 December [1849]
Summary
Comments on JDD’s book [Geology (1849)]. Is sending copies of various geological papers. Their agreements and differences on coral reefs, volcanic geology, denudation, and subsidence.
Comments on Robert Chambers’ book [Ancient sea-margins (1848)].
Asks to borrow cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Dwight Dana |
Date: | 5 Dec [1849] |
Classmark: | Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1276 |
To Hugh Cuming [October? 1849]
Summary
Discusses cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Cuming |
Date: | [Oct? 1849] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.82) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1258 |
To Edward Forbes [1 May – 5 June 1851]
Summary
Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Forbes |
Date: | [1 May – 5 June 1851] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 131 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1214 |
To C. S. Bate 1 April [1853]
Summary
Thanks for specimens of cirripedes attached to rocks, which show no boring. CD hopes to see some on limestone.
Encourages CSB to do research on the complemental males of Scalpellum vulgare.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Spence Bate |
Date: | 1 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1511 |
To John Murray 24 February [1861]
Summary
If JM disapproves of inserting CD’s geological works on back of title-page [of Origin, 3d ed.], he should strike them out. CD cares little. Reminds him to insert "additions and corrections" in advertisements. Sends list for presentation copies.
Asks whether his Journal of researches has sold at all satisfactorily.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 24 Feb [1861] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 100) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3069 |
To John Murray 31 March [1865]
Summary
Has made progress [on Variation]. Hopes it will go to press in the autumn. Lists his needs for cuts to be made – altogether 50.
Supposes Origin has ceased selling. Would be sorry to have labour of another edition. A new French edition is wanted.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Murray |
Date: | 31 Mar [1865] |
Classmark: | National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 ff. 131–135) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4801 |
To C. F. Claus 28 January 1869
Summary
Thanks CC for two memoirs [see 6575. The other was possibly "Die Cypris-ähnliche Larve der Cirripedien", Schr. Ges. Beförd Naturw. Marburg (1869)].
Haeckel is too enthusiastic and too bold in drawing conclusions.
CD sees no reason to add to what he says on isolation, in new edition of Origin.
Lists specimens he has available for CC’s intended study of metamorphoses of Lepas.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Carl Friedrich Claus |
Date: | 28 Jan 1869 |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 205–207) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-6581 |
From V. O. Kovalevsky 5 October 1870
Summary
Forwards Alexander Kovalevsky’s letter [7326] with the information on the vertebrate character of ascidian larvae.
Author: | Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский) |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 5 Oct 1870 |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 83 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7334 |
From C. W. Peach 1 May 1871
Summary
Sends specimens of gulf-weed and cirripedes for CD to identify.
Various observations on Descent,
inherited deafness,
recognition of musical notes by dog, etc.
Author: | Charles William Peach |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 1 May 1871 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 177–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7731 |
To W. D. Fox 17 July [1853]
Summary
Discusses Rugby and education in general. The enormous proportion of time spent on classics checks interest "in anything in which reasoning & observation comes into play".
Expresses shock and sympathy on learning of the deaths in WDF’s house.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 17 July [1853] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 84) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1522 |
To T. H. Huxley 20 February [1855]
Summary
Sends specimens of sessile cirripedes for corroboration of their cementing apparatus.
Absence of anus in Brachiopoda and Alcippe cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 20 Feb [1855] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 23, 372, 376) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1635 |
From Federico Delpino 23 April 1878
Summary
Has reviewed Forms of flowers in Revista Botanica [(1877): 84–106].
CD’s treatment by the French Academy.
Hypothesises that the mollusc-like mantle of Balanus originates from a form of grafting.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 23 Apr 1878 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 156 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-11482 |
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