To G. R. Waterhouse [January–June 1850]
Summary
Wishes to propose John Lubbock as a member of the Entomological Society.
Asks for B. H. Hodgson’s pamphlet on sheep ["Tame sheep and goats", J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal 16 (1847): 1003–26]. Asks for odd numbers of GRW’s work [A natural history of the Mammalia (1846–8)]. Regrets that this work has stopped.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | George Robert Waterhouse |
Date: | [Jan–June 1850] |
Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/6/6) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1144 |
To Richard Owen [January – 23 March 1850]
Summary
CD regrets the trouble RO has had about C. G. Ehrenberg’s parcel.
He is reading On the nature of limbs [1849] with uncommon interest and admires the way Owen worked out the toes.
Also has read On parthenogenesis [1849] with great interest.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Richard Owen |
Date: | [Jan – 23 Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1231 |
To N. T. Wetherell 8 [August 1850]
Summary
Has not completed description of NTW’s Loricula. Wants permission to have it figured by James de Carle Sowerby. Does NTW have other fossil cirripedes?
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell |
Date: | 8 [Aug 1850] |
Classmark: | Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1267 |
DCP-LETT-1282
Summary
Cancelled: part of 1014. Has been dissecting an animal about the size of a pin-head for the last half month. Could spend another month on it 'and daily see some more beautiful structure'.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert FitzRoy |
Date: | [1850?] |
Classmark: | DAR 144: 120 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1282 |
To W. J. Hooker [January 1850]
Summary
Thanks WJH for information about J. D. Hooker; CD was very anxious to hear something about his safety.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Jackson Hooker |
Date: | [Jan 1850] |
Classmark: | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (Directors’ Correspondence English letters A–H 1850, 29: 201) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1285 |
To Adam White [January–March 1850]
Summary
Requests AW to ask Arthur Adams, who is going on a polar expedition to Lancaster Sound, to collect cirripedes.
Asks location of "Cape Rivers".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Adam White |
Date: | [Jan–Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | Smithsonian Libraries and Archives (Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology MSS 405 A. Gift of the Burndy Library) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1286 |
To Charles Lyell [3 January 1850]
Summary
Discusses CL’s paper, "On craters of denudation" [Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 6 (1850): 207–34], which "will be a thorn in the side of É[lie] de B[eaumont]". Notes evidence from Galapagos overlooked by CL. Mentions other examples of craters.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Lyell, 1st baronet |
Date: | [3 Jan 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.90) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1287 |
To Robert Fitch 6 January [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow some more cirripede specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 6 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1288 |
To Robert Fitch 10 January [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for sending fossil cirripede specimens. Unfortunately one was broken in transit. Asks if James de Carle Sowerby may draw specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 10 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1290 |
To Robert Fitch 15 January [1850]
Summary
Discusses fossil cirripede specimens from RF’s collection. Comments on problems of describing their valves.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 15 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1291 |
To W. D. Fox [17 January 1850]
Summary
Account of the birth of Leonard Darwin, during which he administered the chloroform to Emma.
Continues the water-cure.
Has begun work on fossil cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | William Darwin Fox |
Date: | [17 Jan 1850] |
Classmark: | Christ’s College Library, Cambridge (MS 53 Fox 75) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1292 |
To J. S. Henslow 17 January [1850]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Stevens Henslow |
Date: | 17 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 93: A96–A97 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1293 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 19 January [1850]
Summary
Describes result of his dissection of one of JSB’s cirripede specimens, "now a hundred fold more instructive". Awaits fossils from Copenhagen Chalk for comparison with British specimens. Asks permission for J. de C. Sowerby to draw specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Date: | 19 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1294 |
To Robert Fitch [23 January 1850]
Summary
Thanks for fossil cirripede specimens. "Yours is incomparably the finest collection in the world of fossil Secondary cirripedes."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | [23 Jan 1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1295 |
To J. S. Bowerbank [24 January – 7 March 1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for specimens of fossil Balanidae.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
Date: | [24 Jan – 7 Mar 1850] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.91) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1296 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 25 January [1850]
Summary
Thanks JS for fossil cirripedes. Discusses the specimens. Sends thanks to J. G. Forchhammer for specimens.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
Date: | 25 Jan [1850] |
Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1297 |
To Robert Fitch [28 January 1850]
Summary
Thanks him for cirripede specimens. Discusses RF’s collection.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | [28 Jan 1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1298 |
To Robert Fitch 1 February [1850]
Summary
Mentions illness.
Describes work on fossil cirripedes. Asks to keep specimens somewhat longer.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | 1 Feb [1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1299 |
To J. D. Hooker 3 February [1850]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 3 Feb [1850] |
Classmark: | DAR 114: 117 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1300 |
To Robert Fitch [5 February 1850]
Summary
Asks permission to clean specimen. Describes research on cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
Date: | [5 Feb 1850] |
Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1301 |
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Sowerby, J. de C. | (15) |
Fitch, Robert | (14) |
Bowerbank, J. S. | (7) |
Hancock, Albany | (5) |
Owen, Richard | (5) |
Darwin, C. R. | (97) |
Sowerby, J. de C. | (15) |
Fitch, Robert | (14) |
Bowerbank, J. S. | (7) |
Hancock, Albany | (5) |