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To J. D. Hooker   8 April [1856]

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Summary

Mustering support at Royal Society Council for John Lindley’s Copley Medal. CD thinks Albany Hancock deserves a Royal Medal.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Joseph Dalton Hooker
Date:  8 Apr [1856]
Classmark:  DAR 114: 160
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1851

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  • … DCP-LETT-1851

To Japetus Steenstrup   9 September [1851]

Summary

Returns fossil cirripede specimens to JS and Forchhammer.

Sends copies [of Fossil Cirripedia] to them and to Sven Lovén.

Reading proofs [of Living Cirripedia].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:  9 Sept [1851]
Classmark:  Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1454

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To Japetus Steenstrup   9 September [1851] …
  • … 4to) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Sept [1851] Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup …
  • … See letter to J.  J. S. Steenstrup, 3 April 1851 . …
  • … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) . For the reason for the delay, see letter to …
  • … J.  S. Bowerbank, 25 June [1851] , n.  4. Johan Georg Forchhammer , Sven …
  • … CD with specimens of fossil pedunculated Cirripedia ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  v–vi). …
  • … On 12 September 1851, CD recorded in his Account book (Down House MS): ‘Box Copenhagen 10 …
  • … receive a copy of Living Cirripedia (1851) . Steenstrup’s name was deleted from his list …
  • … 1854) , Cambridge University Library). See letter to J.  J. S. Steenstrup, 3 April 1851 . …
  • … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …

To Japetus Steenstrup   16 October [1851]

Summary

Thanks him for specimens of Xenobalanus. Discusses systematic relations of the genus.

Comments on paper by J. T. Reinhardt ["Om slaegten Lithotryas", Vidensk. Medd. Naturhist. Foren. Kjobenhavn 2 (1850): 1–8].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:  16 Oct [1851]
Classmark:  Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1459

Matches: 14 hits

  • … J. S. Steenstrup, 9 September [1851] ). …
  • … To Japetus Steenstrup   16 October [1851] …
  • … 4to) Charles Robert Darwin Down 16 Oct [1851] Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
  • … Cirripedia (1854):  439). Living Cirripedia (1851):  156 n. Charles Lyell referred to CD’s …
  • … of a paper on another topic ( Steenstrup 1851 , p.  62) and included a plate. He evidently …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … mechanical burrowing. See Living Cirripedia (1851): 336–8, 344–8. CD referred at length to …
  • … of burrowing were essentially the same. CD here refers to Living Cirripedia (1851) , not …
  • … Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , which he had already sent to Steenstrup ( letter to J.   …
  • … corrigenda and addenda in Living Cirripedia (1851):  xii, CD stated: ‘I now find that this …
  • … in Danish in the same journal as Steenstrup 1851 (see n.  3, above). CD had previously …

To J. S. Bowerbank   25 June [1851]

Summary

Asks to re-examine specimen of Scalpellum. Discusses publication [of Fossil Cirripedia] by Palaeontographical Society.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Scott Bowerbank
Date:  25 June [1851]
Classmark:  Houghton Library, Harvard University (Autograph File, D)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1438

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  • … To J. S. Bowerbank   25 June [1851] …
  • … Autograph File, D) Charles Robert Darwin Down 25 June [1851] James Scott Bowerbank …
  • … High Street, was the point of departure in London ( Post Office London directory 1851). …
  • … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of …
  • … Africa, is described in Living Cirripedia (1851):  244. Bowerbank is thanked for having …
  • … be attached to horny corallines (see Living Cirripedia (1851):  226–8). In the description …
  • … of S.  ornatum ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  246) CD stated: ‘The peduncle does not seem to …
  • … Shoe String Press. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Post Office London directory : Post-Office …
  • … see letter to J.  J. S. Steenstrup, 9 September [1851] ). According to the practice of the …
  • … volume, which appeared annually. Fossil Cirripedia (1851) , for example, was number 13  …
  • … of volume 5, published in June 1851 ( Freeman 1977 , p.  68). Hence there was a delay …
  • … CD had already received several copies of Fossil Cirripedia (1851) (see letter to W.  B. …
  • … R. H. Dunker, 5 April [1851] ), but the remainder of his author’s copies were not …

To Charles Spence Bate   13 June [1851]

Summary

Thanks CSB for drawings of [cirripede] larva and for permission to cite unpublished paper ["On the development of the cirripedes", Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 324–32]. Describes method of preserving specimens. Mentions Balanus common on tidal rocks at Tenby.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Spence Bate
Date:  13 June [1851]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 44
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1340

Matches: 16 hits

  • … To Charles Spence Bate   13 June [1851] …
  • … DAR 143: 44 Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 June [1851] Charles Spence Bate …
  • … Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 2d ser. 8 (1851): 324–32]. Describes method of preserving …
  • … London: Collins. 1958. Bate, Charles Spence. 1851. On the development of the Cirripedia. …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … prehensile antennae in Living Cirripedia (1851):  286–7. He gave the dimensions of the …
  • … letter to Edward Forbes, [1 May – 5 June 1851] ). CD was particularly interested in Bate’s …
  • … segments of the legs in larvae and referred to this in Living Cirripedia (1851):  11. See …
  • … letter to Edward Forbes, [1 May – 5 June 1851] , in which CD commented on …
  • … a manuscript version of Bate 1851 . …
  • … Bate 1851  appeared in the October issue of the Annals …
  • … of Natural History while Living Cirripedia (1851) was in the press. A reference to CD’s …
  • … in London 1: 336–432. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
  • … letter to Edward Forbes, [1 May – 5 June 1851] , in which CD discussed the considerable …
  • … cement has run in and spoiled the specimens. See letter to C.  S. Bate, 18 August [1851] . …
  • … In Bate 1851 , pp.  328–9, the author stated: ‘Unfortunately … I have not been able, even …

To John Richardson   30 December [1851]

Summary

Will send JR’s box of cirripedes on Thursday.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  John Richardson
Date:  30 Dec [1851]
Classmark:  Louisiana State University Libraries, Louisiana and Lower Mississippi Valley Collections (James E. Murdoch Papers, Mss. 667)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1466H

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To John Richardson   30 December [1851] …
  • … 3. CD refers to Richardson 1851 . …
  • … E. Murdoch Papers, Mss. 667) Charles Robert Darwin Down 30 Dec [1851] John Richardson …
  • … Bibliography Richardson, John. 1851. Arctic searching expedition: a journal of a boat- …
  • … letter to John Richardson, 4 November [1851] (this volume, Supplement), the days of the …
  • … 1854) and in the letter to John Richardson, 4 November [1851] , were brought back …
  • … from North America in 1851. The package carrier from Down travelled to …
  • … London early every Thursday ( Post Office directory of the six home counties 1851). …
  • … Between 1851 and 1854, 30 December fell …
  • … on a Tuesday only in 1851. See …
  • … letter to John Richardson, 4 November [1851] and nn.  2 and …

To Japetus Steenstrup   3 April 1851

Summary

Fossil cirripedes specimens being returned. Will send a copy of monograph [Fossil Cirripedia]. Discusses work on recent cirripedes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
Date:  3 Apr 1851
Classmark:  Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1397

Matches: 13 hits

  • … To Japetus Steenstrup   3 April 1851
  • … 4to) Charles Robert Darwin Down 3 Apr 1851 Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Steenstrup, Johannes Japetus Smith. 1837. Om …
  • … by Steenstrup 1838–9 . CD began correcting the proofs of Living Cirripedia (1851) on …
  • … 18 August 1851 and finished this work on 12 November (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol.  5, …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
  • … of Copenhagen (see Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  v and Correspondence vol.  4). The actual …
  • … Bernhard Rudolph Hadrian Dunker, 5 April [1851] , n.  2. Most of the author’s copies were …
  • … to J.  J. S. Steenstrup, 9 September [1851] ). Johan Georg Forchhammer had supplied CD …
  • … of Copenhagen (see Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  v and Correspondence vol.  4, letter to J.   …
  • … In the preface of Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  v–vi, CD thanked Nils Peter Angelin for the …

To James Dwight Dana   9 September [1851]

Summary

Thanks him for letter and Balanus specimen.

Acasta is curious; may be a new genus.

Is sending copy [of Fossil Cirripedia 1]. Correcting proofs [of Living Cirripedia 1].

Mentions comment by Hermann Abich on JDD’s chapters on the Sandwich Islands [in Geology (1849)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Dwight Dana
Date:  9 Sept [1851]
Classmark:  Yale University Library: Manuscripts and Archives (Dana Family Papers (MS 164) Series 1, Box 2, folder 43)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1453

Matches: 14 hits

  • … To James Dwight Dana   9 September [1851] …
  • … Series 1, Box 2, folder 43) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 Sept [1851] James Dwight Dana …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
  • … 1, above. CD presented copies of Fossil Cirripedia (1851) and …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851) to Dana, Augustus Addison Gould , and Louis Agassiz in the United …
  • … the letter to CD receiving copies of Fossil Cirripedia (1851) ‘a few days ago’ indicates …
  • … that the year must be 1851. This is further confirmed by …
  • … that he was correcting proofs of Living Cirripedia (1851):  he did this work between …
  • … 18 August and 12 November 1851 (‘Journal’; Correspondence vol.  5, Appendix I). The letter …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … name sporillus (p.  319). See letter from John Gwyn Jeffreys, 7 September 1851 . …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851) . See n.   …

To Edward Forbes   [1 May – 5 June 1851]

Summary

Comments on MS by C. S. Bate. Bate not aware of other work on Cirripedia; cites Bate’s errors. Would Bate allow CD to use his drawings in Living Cirripedia? [See Living Cirripedia 1: 9–16.]

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Forbes
Date:  [1 May – 5 June 1851]
Classmark:  DAR 144: 131
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1214

Matches: 17 hits

  • … To Edward Forbes   [1 May – 5 June 1851] …
  • … DAR 144: 131 Charles Robert Darwin Down [1 May – 5 June 1851] Edward Forbes …
  • … 7. See letter to C.  S. Bate, 13 June [1851] , in which CD suggested that Bate purchase a …
  • … to fit into the eye-piece of his microscope. The death of Anne Darwin , 23 April 1851. …
  • … Bibliography Bate, Charles Spence. 1851. On the development of the Cirripedia. Annals and …
  • … CD’s reference is to the manuscript of Bate’s paper, which was published in October 1851 ( …
  • … Bate 1851 ). Bate described the two larval stages of five species of Lepadidae. …
  • … of publishing more than a single error. ’ ( Bate 1851 , p.  331). CD referred to Bate’s …
  • … cirripede larvae in Living Cirripedia (1851):  11. The permission was granted (see letter …
  • … to C.  S. Bate, 13 June [1851] ). …
  • … CD referred to Bate 1851  in the preface …
  • … to Living Cirripedia (1851):  ix, as a ‘valuable Paper’ and discussed his work further on …
  • … Journal 35: 88–104. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … on metamorphosis in Living Cirripedia (1851):  8–28. The copyist frequently spelled the …
  • … from that given in Koelliker 1843 and Bate 1851 (see Living Cirripedia (1854):  98–9). …
  • … Saint-Ange 1835 . In Living Cirripedia (1851): viii–ix, CD gave the date as 1834, the date …

To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society   19 July [1851]

Summary

Finds he needs four woodcuts for the introduction [to vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia], which calls for quick action. Will send entire MS by the end of the month.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:  19 July [1851]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1443

Matches: 10 hits

  • … To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society   19 July [1851] …
  • … Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 19 July [1851] Edwin Lankester Ray Society …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the …
  • … opposite page 3 in the introduction to Living Cirripedia (1851) . One of them, Fig. …
  • … of the ‘Capitulum’ in Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  9, which CD had asked to borrow in letter …
  • … Palaeontographical Society , 7 July [1851]. Fig. II is of the scutum of Lepas , and Fig. …
  • … London ( Post Office London directory 1851), were printers to the Ray Society . Baird …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Post Office London directory : Post-Office …

To S. P. Woodward   [April 1850 – January 1851]

Summary

Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:  [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851]
Classmark:  Wellcome Collection
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-13807

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To S.  P. Woodward    [April 1850 – January 1851] …
  • … Collection Charles Robert Darwin Down [Apr 1850 – Jan 1851] Samuel Pickworth Woodward …
  • … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … named by Johannes Japetus Smith Steenstrup ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  55, 64–5, 80). …
  • … 21 March [1850] , and Fossil Cirripedia (1851) in which all four specimens in this letter …
  • … date of completion of the manuscript of the first volume of Fossil Cirripedia ( 1851 ) in …
  • … January 1851. See letter to S.  P. Woodward, 21 March [1850] . …
  • … are described in Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  38, 40, 73, and 64, respectively. Pollicipes …

To C. S. Bate   18 August [1851]

Summary

Thanks CSB for cirripede larvae.

Has been unwell.

Cannot see transverse articulation referred to and does not believe in it.

Sends species synonyms.

Discussion of Chthamalinae.

Suggests using asphalt to seal specimen containers.

Comments on mouth of larva.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Charles Spence Bate
Date:  18 Aug [1851]
Classmark:  DAR 143: 45
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1345

Matches: 11 hits

  • … To C.  S. Bate   18 August [1851] …
  • … DAR 143: 45 Charles Robert Darwin Down 18 Aug [1851] Charles Spence Bate …
  • … was the correct one ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  x). The British Association Rules of …
  • … Bibliography Bate, Charles Spence. 1851. On the development of the Cirripedia. Annals and …
  • … see letter to C.  S. Bate, 13 June [1851] ). He now provided him with actual specimens, …
  • … Laurentius Salvius. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … letter to Edward Forbes, [1 May – 5 June 1851] ). Bate agreed with CD that there was no …
  • … in mounting the specimens. ’ ( Bate 1851 , p.  328). See also Living Cirripedia (1854):  …
  • … Balanus punctatus of George Montagu ( Bate 1851 , p.  325). In Living Cirripedia (1854):  …
  • … In the letter to C.  S. Bate, 13 June [1851] , CD described his method of preserving …

To S. P. Woodward   9 June [1851]

Summary

Asks for reference to article by Kölliker, ["Some observations on the structure of two new species of Hectocotyle", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1851): 9–22]. Asks for information.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Samuel Pickworth Woodward
Date:  9 June [1851]
Classmark:  Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1435

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To S.  P. Woodward   9 June [1851] …
  • … M. Stecher collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 9 June [1851] Samuel Pickworth Woodward …
  • … species of Hectocotyle", Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond. 22 (1851): 9–22]. Asks for information. …
  • … Bibliography Kölliker, Rudolf Albert von. 1851. Some observations upon the structure of …
  • … of London 20: 9–21. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
  • … Kölliker 1851 . CD may have been thinking of an earlier paper by Rudolf Albert von …
  • … London, was printed in the Transactions of 1851, but it would probably have been available …
  • … it is attached’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  200). Kölliker’s belief that the hectocotylus …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …

To A. A. Gould   2 June [1851]

Summary

Thanks for cirripede specimens. Describes progress [on Living Cirripedia].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Augustus Addison Gould
Date:  2 June [1851]
Classmark:  University of New Hampshire, Special Collections and Archives (MC 51, box 1, folder 19 (Amy Cheney Beach’s autograph album, 1880–1901)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1430

Matches: 9 hits

  • … To A. A. Gould   2 June [1851] …
  • … album, 1880–1901) Charles Robert Darwin Down 2 June [1851] Augustus Addison Gould …
  • … Japetus Steenstrup, 9 September [1851] ). CD used the term Lepadidae to refer to all …
  • … reference to CD’s Fossil Cirripedia (1851) (see n. 4, below). This letter was previously …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of …
  • … to A.  A. Gould, 3 September [1848] ). Gould’s letter of 9 April 1851 has not been found. …
  • … A few copies of Fossil Cirripedia (1851) were available to CD in April, but he did not …
  • … Correspondence vol. 5, letter to W. B. R. H. Dunker, 5 April [1851] , and letter to …

To James de Carle Sowerby   21 January [1851]

Summary

CD is pleased with plates [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)]; most corrections need only a touch. Requests revises soon and asks how much he owes.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James de Carle Sowerby
Date:  21 Jan [1851]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1386

Matches: 8 hits

  • … To James de Carle Sowerby   21 January [1851] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 21 Jan [1851] James de Carle Sowerby …
  • … University Press. 1985–. Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … the Palaeontographical Society , was preparing the plates for Fossil Cirripedia (1851) . …
  • … Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  Tab. IV, fig. …
  • … 7. Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  Tab. II, the second of two plates devoted to species of …
  • … letter to J.  de C.  Sowerby, 19 February [1851] , which indicates that Sowerby did not …

To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society   4 March [1851]

Summary

Asks EL to request the Council [of the Ray Society] to permit him to have nine plates [for vol. 1 of Living Cirripedia] instead of eight (of which two were to be in colour) and a tenth plate if he pays for it himself.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edwin Lankester; Ray Society
Date:  4 Mar [1851]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1395

Matches: 7 hits

  • … To Edwin Lankester, Ray Society    4 March [1851] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 4 Mar [1851] Edwin Lankester Ray Society …
  • … of the Ray Society . The Ray Society published Living Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ). …
  • … Living Cirripedia (1851) has ten plates; none is coloured. George …
  • … for both volumes of Living Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ) and for Fossil Cirripedia ( 1854 ). …
  • … Society. 1854. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …

To J. de C. Sowerby   13 February [1851]

Summary

CD appreciates JdeCS’s care. Sends specimens, noting points to be observed. He adds that the figures which have been most troublesome are those of which drawings were made [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)].

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James de Carle Sowerby
Date:  13 Feb [1851]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1389

Matches: 6 hits

  • … To J.  de C.  Sowerby   13 February [1851] …
  • … Society (Mss.B.D25. ) Charles Robert Darwin Down 13 Feb [1851] James de Carle Sowerby …
  • … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Scalpellum arcuatum ( Fossil Cirripedia (1851):  Tab. I, fig. 7) to Sowerby’s engravings …
  • … CD had requested alterations (see letter to J.  de C.  Sowerby, 10 February [1851] ). …

To J. S. Bowerbank   7 July [1851]

Summary

Asks to borrow woodcut from Palaeontographical Society for use in Living Cirripedia, vol. 1.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  James Scott Bowerbank; Palaeontographical Society
Date:  7 July [1851]
Classmark:  American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.99)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1441

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  • … To J.  S. Bowerbank   7 July [1851] …
  • … Charles Robert Darwin Down 7 July [1851] James Scott Bowerbank Palaeontographical Society …
  • … Bibliography Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, …
  • … cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851. …
  • … Cirripedia on page 9 (not page 10) of Fossil Cirripedia (1851) . It appears on a fold-out …
  • … opposite page 3 of Living Cirripedia (1851). Bowerbank was treasurer of the Ray Society as …

To Albany Hancock   8 June [1851]

Summary

Asks whether he can borrow from Joshua Alder an article [Sven Ludvig Lovén, "Ny art af Cirripedia Alepas squalicola", Ofers. Kongl. Vetensk. Acad. Förh. 1 (1844): 192–4] in order to have the plate copied. Asks to borrow additional specimen of Ibla.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Albany Hancock
Date:  8 June [1851]
Classmark:  Archives of the New York Botanical Garden (Charles Finney Cox Collection)
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1433

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  • … To Albany Hancock   8 June [1851] …
  • … Charles Finney Cox Collection) Charles Robert Darwin Down 8 June [1851] Albany Hancock …
  • … G.  B. Sowerby Jr ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  207). The ‘curious point’ refers to CD’s …
  • … 1848). CD discussed the complemental males of Ibla in Living Cirripedia (1851):  207–14. …
  • … 1 and 2 of Plate IV in Living Cirripedia (1851) , with explanations given on pp.  380–1. …
  • … 2d ser. 5: 173–204. Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Lovén, Sven. 1844. Ny art af Cirripedia [ …
  • … to a mass of the Galeolaria decumbens’ ( Living Cirripedia (1851):  204). There is no …
  • … discussion of Ibla in Living Cirripedia (1851) as to why CD was interested in the surface …
  • … of attachment (see Living Cirripedia (1851):  181, 336–48). CD and Hancock had previously …

To George Newport   12 August [1851]

Summary

Returns scissors with thanks.

Young John Lubbock who has a strong taste for dissecting insects would benefit greatly from conversation with GN.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  George Newport
Date:  12 Aug [1851]
Classmark:  Linnean Society of London
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-1450

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  • … To George Newport   12 August [1851] …
  • … Linnean Society of London Charles Robert Darwin Down 12 Aug [1851] George Newport …
  • … Bibliography Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with …
  • … By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851. Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the …
  • … See letter to George Newport, 24 July [1851] . Newport, as a member of …
  • … have received a copy of Living Cirripedia (1851) . It appears that Newport had asked CD to …
  • … see letter to George Newport, 24 July [1851] ) to the library of the Linnean Society , and …
  • … both volumes of Living Cirripedia ( 1851 , 1854 ) to the Linnean Society (MS attached to …
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The death of Anne Elizabeth Darwin

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Charles and Emma Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851.   Emma was heavily pregnant with their fifth son, Horace, at the time and could not go with Charles when he took Annie to Malvern to consult the hydrotherapist, Dr Gully.…

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  • … Darwin’s eldest daughter, Annie, died at the age of ten in 1851.   Emma was heavily pregnant with …
  • … expired at Malvern at 1  Midday on the 23 d . of April 1851.— I write these few pages, as I …
  • … her dear joyous face. Blessings on her.— April 30. 1851. Notes: 1 …
  • … Darwin’s reaction to her sister’s death Aug. 1851. Etty nearly 8 years old. She appeared for …
  • … Annie's illness and death To W. D. Fox, [ 27 March 1851 ] To Emma Darwin,  [17 …

Darwin in letters, 1847-1850: Microscopes and barnacles

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Darwin's study of barnacles, begun in 1844, took him eight years to complete. The correspondence reveals how his interest in a species found during the Beagle voyage developed into an investigation of the comparative anatomy of other cirripedes and…

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  • … confusing sub-class of Crustacea,  Living Cirripedia  (1851, 1854) and  Fossil Cirripedia  (1851
  • … dioecious plants from monoecious forms (Living Cirripedia (1851): 214; (1854): 29, 528 n.) and, at …
  • … he justified in a lengthy footnote (Living Cirripedia (1851): 293 n.). The problem that bothered …

Darwin in letters, 1851-1855: Death of a daughter

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The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child,…

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  • … to Darwin and to his contemporaries. Throughout 1851, Darwin concentrated on the pedunculated …
  • … details with the Ray Society for  Living Cirripedia  (1851) and with the Palaeontographical …

Darwin in letters, 1875: Pulling strings

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‘I am getting sick of insectivorous plants’, Darwin confessed in January 1875. He had worked on the subject intermittently since 1859, and had been steadily engaged on a book manuscript for nine months; January also saw the conclusion of a bitter dispute…

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  • … getting more precise details about an operation performed in 1851 on her sister. He had described …

Darwin in letters, 1876: In the midst of life

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1876 was the year in which the Darwins became grandparents for the first time.  And tragically lost their daughter-in-law, Amy, who died just days after her son's birth.  All the letters from 1876 are now published in volume 24 of The Correspondence…

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  • … his oldest daughter Annie, who died at the age of 10 in 1851, but William, who was 11 years old at …

Darwin in letters, 1863: Quarrels at home, honours abroad

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At the start of 1863, Charles Darwin was actively working on the manuscript of The variation of animals and plants under domestication, anticipating with excitement the construction of a hothouse to accommodate his increasingly varied botanical experiments…

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  • … ). The Darwins’ daughter, Annie, had died at Malvern in 1851, and Hooker’s news was a powerful …