To ? [28 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks correspondent for lecture tickets, but regrets he will be unable to attend.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [28 Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (Catalogue 40/20) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1230 |
To Richard Owen [1849?]
Summary
CD proposes to call for tea if he is well enough on Thursday.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [1849?] |
Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1089 |
To Thomas Salt 27 July [1849]
Summary
Returns the enclosed from his brother [Erasmus Alvey Darwin]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Salt |
Date: | 27 July [1849] |
Classmark: | Rachel Salt (private collection); sold by Spink’s (dealers), July 2018 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1103F |
To M. A. T. Whitby 12 August [1849]
Summary
Thanks MATW for the results of her experiments on the inheritance of caterpillar peculiarities and would be grateful for any further observations on differences in structure or habits between silkworm breeds, or peculiarities in inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Mary Anne Theresa Whitby |
Date: | 12 Aug [1849] |
Classmark: | New York Academy of Medicine (MS 15) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1194 |
To Hugh Edwin Strickland 29 January [1849]
Summary
Has altered and added to HES’s list [compiled for Bibliographia zoologiæ et geologiæ, edited by Louis Agassiz and enlarged by HES, (1848–54)].
On zoological nomenclature CD cites a case in which he believes more harm than good would be done by following the rule of priority. Thinks the rule of the first describer’s name being attached in perpetuity to a species has been the greatest curse to natural history. Every genus of cirripedes has a half-dozen names and not one careful description.
Sends a paper he once wrote [missing] on the subject [of zoological nomenclature].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | 29 Jan [1849] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1215 |
To Smith, Elder & Company [16 February 1849]
Summary
Asks for account on South America and sales of Coral reefs and Volcanic islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Smith, Elder & Co |
Date: | [16 Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | Edward Ford (private collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1217 |
To W. J. Hooker [c. February 1849]
Summary
Thanks WJH for information on J. D. Hooker’s progress.
J. D. Hooker promised a copy of his Galapagos paper. Can WJH forward one to the Athenaeum?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | [c. Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–J 1849, 27: 155) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1218 |
To H. E. Strickland [4 February 1849]
Summary
HES’s arguments are of great weight, but CD cannot yet bring himself to reject well-known names for obscure ones. Sends four cases that he thinks will stagger HES. Cites his problems in classifying cirripedes. CD cannot bear to give new names, yet may do wrong to attach old ones. Not one species is correctly defined. The harm done by "species mongers".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | [4 Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1221 |
To W. D. Fox 6 February [1849]
Summary
His memory of his recently deceased father is a treasure to him.
Thanks WDF for information on the water-cure. Dislikes the thought of it.
Reports results of his experiments with tied-up fruit-trees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 6 Feb [1849] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 71) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1222 |
To Lovell Augustus Reeve [before 14 March 1849]
Summary
Happy to support LAR’s application to the Royal Society.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Lovell Augustus Reeve |
Date: | [before 14 Mar 1849] |
Classmark: | Melvill 1900: 352 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1223F |
To Johannes Peter Müller 10 February [1849]
Summary
Requests JPM’s assistance by lending or giving him cirripede specimens. The anatomy of cirripedes has been most imperfectly done, and their classification is a perfect chaos.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Peter (Johannes) Müller |
Date: | 10 Feb [1849] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Slg. Darmstaedter Lc 1859: Darwin, Charles, Bl. 216–217 ) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1224 |
To H. E. Strickland 10 February [1849]
Summary
HES’s letter will fructify to some extent: CD will try to be more faithful to rigid virtue and priority. Would not adopt his own notion in cirripede book without prior approval by others. Will not append "Darwin" to any of his species. Feels sure many others share his aversion.
Asks HES’s opinion on retention of generic name Conchoderma.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | 10 Feb [1849] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1225 |
To H. E. Strickland [19 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks HES for solving his problem. Has some difficulty with HES’s type-species. In arranging genera in a natural order it is often impossible to say which species should be considered the type.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Hugh Edwin Strickland |
Date: | [19 Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | Museum of Zoology Archives, University of Cambridge (Strickland Papers) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1227 |
To Richard Owen [24 February 1849]
Summary
Thanks RO for his note on Conchoderma hunteri [see Living Cirripedia 1: 153].
Has been very unwell; has lost four-fifths of his time. Will go to Malvern to try the water-cure for his vomiting, which regular doctors cannot cure.
Has done some pretty homological work with cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [24 Feb 1849] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1228 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 24 February [1849]
Summary
Thanks him for cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Date: | 24 Feb [1849] |
Classmark: | Formerly Leeds City Libraries; for sale at Bonhams (dealers) (13 March 2002) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1229 |
To Peter Lund Simmonds 25 February [1849]
Summary
Sends detailed report on the prospects for a settlement on the coast of Patagonia, pointing out many problems, and recommending instead the Falkland Islands.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Peter Lund Simmonds |
Date: | 25 Feb [1849] |
Classmark: | Linnean Society of London (Quentin Keynes collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1229A |
To William Thompson [1 March 1849]
Summary
Encloses diagram illustrating difference between Chthamalus and Balanus. Specimens sent. Finds no Chthamalus in WT’s collection.
Has read with much interest WT’s book [The natural history of Ireland, vol. 1 (1849)].
Recommends E. S. Dixon’s book [Ornamental and domestic poultry; their history and management (1848)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Thompson |
Date: | [1 Mar 1849] |
Classmark: | Trinity College Library, Cambridge (Add.L.b.1: 24) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1232 |
To Henri Milne-Edwards 2 March [1849]
Summary
CD is obliged to put off his journey to Paris because of ill-health, but this will give CD more time to study the specimens.
Values HM-E’s opinion on CD’s barnacle work more than any man’s in Europe.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Henri Milne-Edwards |
Date: | 2 Mar [1849] |
Classmark: | Piasa SA, Paris (dealers) (2008) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1232F |
To Susan Darwin [19 March 1849]
Summary
Writes a detailed account of his treatment at J. M. Gully’s hydropathy establishment at Malvern.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Susan Elizabeth Darwin |
Date: | [19 Mar 1849] |
Classmark: | DAR 92: A7–A8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1234 |
To W. D. Fox 24 [March 1849]
Summary
Reports progress with water-cure. Describes the treatment.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | 24 [Mar 1849] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 73) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1235 |
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Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Hancock, Albany | (4) |
Strickland, H. E. | (4) |
Darwin, C. R. | |
Lyell, Charles | (7) |
Henslow, J. S. | (5) |
Fox, W. D. | (4) |
Hancock, Albany | (4) |
Strickland, H. E. | (4) |
Dana, J. D. | (3) |
Forchhammer, J. G. | (3) |
Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
Salt, Thomas | (3) |
Cuming, Hugh | (2) |
Higgins, John | (2) |
Murray, John (b) | (2) |
Owen, Richard | (2) |
Ransome, George | (2) |
Bowerbank, J. S. | (1) |
Clapham, Abraham | (1) |
Covington, Syms | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, S. E. | (1) |
Daubrée, Auguste | (1) |
Fitch, Robert | (1) |
Gould, A. A. | (1) |
Herschel, J. F. W. | (1) |
Hooker, W. J. | (1) |
Horner, M. E. | (1) |
Kerrison, E. H. | (1) |
Lovén, Sven | (1) |
Lyell, M. E. | (1) |
Milne-Edwards, Henri | (1) |
Murchison, R. I. | (1) |
Müller, Johannes | (1) |
Reeve, L. A. | (1) |
Simmonds, P. L. | (1) |
Smith, Elder & Co | (1) |
Stanhope, E. H. | (1) |
Steenstrup, Japetus | (1) |
Swale and Wilson | (1) |
Thompson, William (a) | (1) |
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Weld, C. R. | (1) |
Whitby, M. A. T. | (1) |