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 John Higgins 27 May [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 27 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1334 |
To W. E. Darwin [1850–4?]
Summary
Two letters have arrived for WED.
Joseph has had two teeth out.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | William Erasmus Darwin |
| Date: | [1850–4?] |
| Classmark: | Christie’s, London (dealers) (17 November 1995) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-13799F |
To Robert Fitch [6 February 1850]
Summary
RF’s specimens have arrived.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [6 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1302 |
To Robert Fitch 5 May [1850]
Summary
Thanks him for additional fossil cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | 5 May [1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1325 |
To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Summary
Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1356 |
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 |
From Abraham Clapham 8 March 1850
Summary
Results of crosses in Phlox.
| Author: | Abraham Clapham |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | 8 Mar 1850 |
| Classmark: | DAR 161: 150 |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1309 |
To J. S. Bowerbank 17 March [1850]
Summary
Thanks JSB for information regarding Sylvanus Hanley’s residence.
Sends stamps for specimen.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | James Scott Bowerbank |
| Date: | 17 Mar [1850] |
| Classmark: | University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1312 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Bowerbank, J. S. …
- … r Hanley’s residence. I will certainly visit him when next I stay in London; but London unfortunately always disagrees with my health. I enclose with many thanks stamps (which I hope will not be inconvenient) for Eling’s specimen. — Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin …
To A. A. Gould 8 April [1850]
Summary
Parcel from AAG containing cirripede specimens has been received by CD from Hugh Cuming.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Augustus Addison Gould |
| Date: | 8 Apr [1850] |
| Classmark: | Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 228) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1320 |
To the Palaeontographical Society [before 22 February 1850]
Summary
Read letter from CD offering a monograph of British fossil cirripedes.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Palaeontographical Society |
| Date: | [before 22 Feb 1850] |
| Classmark: | British Geological Survey Archives (Palaeontographical Society minutes) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1304 |
To Japetus Steenstrup 15 June [1850]
Summary
Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup |
| Date: | 15 June [1850] |
| Classmark: | Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1342 |
From the Ray Society [4–6 November 1850]
Summary
In response to CD’s letter [see 1364] the Secretary is instructed to request that he send a specimen plate to James de Carle Sowerby for estimate of cost.
| Author: | Ray Society |
| Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Date: | [4–6 Nov 1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Library MSS RAY) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1366A |
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 |
To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Summary
About to go to press with "wearyful" Fossil Cirripedia [vol. 1 (1851)];
would like to borrow proof-sheets of Frederick Dixon’s work [The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex (1850)]. Would also like to borrow a specimen of Balanus glacialis from Royal College of Surgeons. Encloses formal request [see 1356].
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Richard Owen |
| Date: | 10 Sept [1850] |
| Classmark: | Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/198) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1355 |
To Salt & Son 26 November [1850]
Summary
Inquires about financial matters.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Salt & Sons |
| Date: | 26 Nov [1850] |
| Classmark: | Shropshire Archives (SA D3651/B/47/1/35) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1372 |
To Robert Fitch [December? 1850]
Summary
Describes progress of J. de C. Sowerby in engraving fossil cirripede specimens.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | Robert Fitch |
| Date: | [Dec? 1850] |
| Classmark: | Norwich Castle |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1376 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Darwin, C. R. Fitch, Robert …
- … r Sowerby but he has yet several in hand. He has, also, arranged the places of all on the Plates; but his progress is intolerably slow. We do all we can to urge him on. I assure you the very week on which I can get from Sowerby proof-Plates & see that the Engravings are correct your specimens shall most faithfully be all returned. Until then I trust to your kindness & liberality to be patient with me. — This obviously requires no answer Yours faithfully obliged | C. Darwin …
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 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 John Higgins 13 December [1850]
Summary
Discusses his account. Mentions reduction in rent due to agricultural conditions.
| Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
| Addressee: | John Higgins |
| Date: | 13 Dec [1850] |
| Classmark: | Lincolnshire Archives (HIG/4/2/1/38) |
| Letter no: | DCP-LETT-1375 |
| letter | (105) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (97) |
| Hooker, J. D. | (2) |
| Ray Society | (2) |
| Clapham, Abraham | (1) |
| Dana, J. D. | (1) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (15) |
| Fitch, Robert | (14) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (8) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (7) |
| Hancock, Albany | (5) |
| Darwin, C. R. | (105) |
| Sowerby, J. de C. | (15) |
| Fitch, Robert | (14) |
| Bowerbank, J. S. | (7) |
| Ray Society | (6) |
