To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Obliged for account of change in quality of wool. "Some authors will not admit that climate has any perceptible action."
Hopes his health is re-established.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [before May 1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 303 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1545 |
From Edmund Saul Dixon [September–October 1848]
Summary
He can distinguish varieties of guinea-fowl as soon as birds are hatched.
Behaviour of Malay hens.
| Author: | Edmund Saul (Eugene Sebastian Delamer) Dixon |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [Sept–Oct 1848] |
| Classmark: | DAR 205.5: 214 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1621 |
To Edward Cresy [before May 1848?]
Summary
Agrees that naval expeditions to the Arctic are a waste of money. Believes Sir J. Barrow responsible. "Dr [Richard?] King is quite right in the advantage of Land Expeditions".
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
| Date: | [before May 1848?] |
| Classmark: | DAR 143: 304 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-805 |
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 Richard Owen [April? 1848]
Summary
Pleased at RO’s praise of Coral reefs.
Has read with very great interest RO’s "Report on the archetype" [Rep. BAAS 16 (1846): 169–340]. RO should give name to every letter or number in his woodcuts.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | [Apr? 1848] |
| Classmark: | R. S. Owen 1894, 1: 209 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-997 |
| Darwin, C. R. | (74) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (3) |
| Darwin, Catherine | (2) |
| Langton, Catherine | (2) |
| Breton, Philip le | (1) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Herschel, J. F. W. | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (85) |
| Cresy, Edward, Jr | (6) |
| Darwin, Emma | (6) |
| Wedgwood, Emma | (6) |
| Gray, J. E. | (5) |
