From G. E. Bearpark 12 February 1841
Summary
Requesting information about membership of the Geological Society of London.
Author: | George Edmundson Bearpark |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 12 Feb 1841 |
Classmark: | Geological Society of London (GSL/L/R/6/126) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-587F |
From J. S. Henslow 19 April 1841
Summary
Reports observations on the behaviour of captive harvest mouse and dormouse. When descending sticks mouse uses its tail like a prehensile-tailed monkey.
Author: | John Stevens Henslow |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 19 Apr 1841 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 176 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-598 |
From W. C. Redfield May 1841
Summary
Is sending through John Blunt a copy of the last geological report of the state of New York along with a short paper on the tornado that passed through the state of New Jersey in June 1835.
Author: | William C. Redfield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | May 1841 |
Classmark: | Yale University: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (William C. Redfield’s outbound letter book 1835–41 (z117 00151 2) p. 239) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-598A |
From Charles Lyell [c. 16 July 1841]
Summary
Regrets not seeing CD before leaving on trip [to the U. S.]. CD’s move from London will be a privation for CL.
Returns charts on coral reefs.
Author: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 16 July 1841] |
Classmark: | DAR 98: A1–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-604 |
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 |
From Leonard Jenyns [c. 30 March 1841]
Summary
LJ has had a letter from R. T. Lowe in Madeira who thinks Scorpaena histrio, a species from Galapagos described in no. 1 [of Fish], is the same as the one in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. LJ does not think it is possible.
Author: | Leonard Jenyns; Leonard Blomefield |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 30 Mar 1841] |
Classmark: | DAR 205.3: 279 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-596 |
From Catherine Darwin 8 July 1841
Summary
Describes the appearance and occurrence of imperfect flowers of "Hex.[?] Trigynia".
Author: | Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 July 1841 |
Classmark: | DAR 109: A95 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-603 |
From John Abberley (Darwin gardener) and R. W. Darwin 18 October 1841
Author: | John Abberley; Robert Waring Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 18 Oct 1841 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 78 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-610 |
Abberley, John | (1) |
Bearpark, G. E. | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, Catherine | (1) |
Darwin, R. W. | (1) |
Henslow, J. S. | (1) |
Jenyns, Leonard | (1) |
Langton, Catherine | (1) |
Lyell, Charles | (1) |
Owen, Richard | (1) |
Redfield, W. C. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
Abberley, John | (1) |
Bearpark, G. E. | (1) |
Blomefield, Leonard | (1) |
Darwin, Catherine | (1) |