To Richard Owen [before 28 April 1850]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Friday
My dear Owen
This requires no answer, without it be a favourable one: it is to say that I am particularly anxious to see a valve of a Cirripede in late Mr Dixon’s Collection figured Pl XXVIII fig 9,2 as well as those other ones (fig. 3 & 4: Pl. XIV)3 of which I before told you, & which you very kindly said you wd endeavour to borrow for me.—
I hope that you are not killing yourself at your usual rate with hard work—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Dixon, Frederick. 1850. The geology and fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations of Sussex. London.
Sowerby, James and Sowerby, James de Carle. 1812–46. The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or, coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth. Vols. 1–4 by James Sowerby; vols. 5–7 continued by J. de C. Sowerby. London.
Summary
Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1357
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Owen
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.89)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1357,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1357.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4
