To Josiah Wedgwood III 25 [April 1853]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Josiah (Jos) Wedgwood, III |
Date: | 25 [Apr 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 21 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1379 |
To E. A. Darwin 26 [April 1853]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Date: | 26 [Apr 1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 210.10: 19, 22 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1380 |
To T. H. Huxley 23 April [1853]
Summary
On THH’s paper on cephalous Mollusca [Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. 143 (1853) pt 1: 29–66]. Discovery of the type or "idea" (in THH’s sense, not Owen’s or Agassiz’s) is one of the highest ends of natural history.
Discusses anamorphism;
position of heart in Cleodora.
Variability within species;
cementing process in cirripedes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 23 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 4) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1480 |
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 Andrew Crombie Ramsay 9 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses geological foliation and cleavage. Urges ACR to read CD’s remarks on subject in his South America before ACR publishes his paper ["On the lower Palaeozoic rocks", Q. J. Geol. Soc. Lond. 9 (1853): 161–79].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Andrew Crombie Ramsay |
Date: | 9 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.106) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1512 |
To John Higgins 11 April [1853]
Summary
Has changed his bank to Union Bank, Charing Cross Branch.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | John Higgins |
Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/60) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1513 |
To T. H. Huxley 11 April [1853]
Summary
Offers to send Ascidia specimens of Beagle voyage. Describes some of them.
Hopes THH will review his book [Living Cirripedia, vol. 1] which has been published for a year with no notice taken of it except briefly by Dana.
Discusses Limulus-like larva. "I have become a man of one idea.– cirripedes morning & night."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Thomas Henry Huxley |
Date: | 11 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 145: 150Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 13) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1514 |
To J. A. H. de Bosquet 15 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses the development and morphology of Verruca.
Would be proud to receive memoir ["Les crustacés fossiles du Limbourg" (1854)].
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet |
Date: | 15 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 124 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1515 |
From E. A. Darwin 26 April 1853
Author: | Erasmus Alvey Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 26 Apr 1853 |
Classmark: | DAR 262.11: 13 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516 |
To Gardeners’ Chronicle [c. 27 April 1853]
Summary
Solicits information about the kind of syphon required to convey water from a proposed large water tank to existing smaller ones.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Gardeners’ Chronicle |
Date: | [c. 27 Apr 1853] |
Classmark: | Gardeners’ Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, no. 19, 7 May 1853, p. 302 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1516A |
To Edward Cresy 29 April [1853]
Summary
Discusses installation of watering system. Sent question to Gardeners’ Chronicle but, through EC’s kindness, superfluously.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Edward Cresy, Jr |
Date: | 29 Apr [1853] |
Classmark: | DAR 143: 310 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1677 |
letter | (11) |
Darwin, C. R. | (10) |
Darwin, E. A. | (1) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Bate, C. S. | (1) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |
Cresy, Edward, Jr | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (1) |
Darwin, C. R. | (11) |
Darwin, E. A. | (2) |
Huxley, T. H. | (2) |
Bate, C. S. | (1) |
Bosquet, J. A. H. de | (1) |