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Dana, James Dwight. 1853b. On the classification and geographical distribution of Crustacea: from the report on Crustacea of the United States Exploring Expedition, under Captain Charles Wilkes, U.S.N., during the years 1838–1842. Philadelphia: C. Sherman.

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  • … Dwight. 1853b. On the classification and geographical distribution of Crustacea: from the …
  • … report on Crustacea of the United States Exploring Expedition, under Captain Charles …

Bowman, Thomas E. and Abele, Lawrence G. 1982. Classification of the recent Crustacea. In The biology of Crustacea, editor-in-chief, Dorothy E. Bliss, vol. 1 of Systematics, the fossil record, and biogeography, edited by Lawrence G. Abele. New York and London: Academic Press.

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  • … Bowman, Thomas E. and Abele, Lawrence G. 1982. Classification of the recent Crustacea. …
  • … In The biology of Crustacea , editor-in-chief, Dorothy E. Bliss, vol. 1 of Systematics, …

Heller, Camil. 1863. Die Crustaceen des südlichen Europa. Crustacea Podophthalmia. Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller.

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  • … Die Crustaceen des südlichen Europa. Crustacea Podophthalmia . Vienna: Wilhelm Braumüller. …

Leydig, Franz. 1860. Naturgeschichte der Daphniden (Crustacea cladocera). Tübingen: H. Laupp’sche Buchhandlung, Laupp & Siebeck.

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  • … Franz. 1860. Naturgeschichte der Daphniden (Crustacea cladocera). Tübingen: H. Laupp’sche …

Bell, Thomas. 1853. A history of the British stalk-eyed crustacea. London: John Van Voorst.

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  • … 1853. A history of the British stalk-eyed crustacea. London: John Van Voorst. SC MB.36.43 …

Miers, Edward John. 1876. Catalogue of the stalk- and sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand. London: E. W. Janson.

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  • … Catalogue of the stalk- and sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand. London: E. W. Janson. …

Gordon, Isabella. 1971. Biographical note on Edward John Miers. Researches on Crustacea 4/5: 123–32.

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  • … note on Edward John Miers. Researches on Crustacea 4/5: 123–32. http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ …

Anon. 1865b. The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 15: 410–16.

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  • … hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History …

Müller, Fritz. 1865a. The Darwinian hypothesis supported by observations on Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 3d ser. 15 (1865): 410–16.

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Woodward, Henry. 1866–78. A monograph of the British fossil Crustacea, belonging to the order Merostomata. London: Palaeontographical Society.

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  • … 1866–78. A monograph of the British fossil Crustacea, belonging to the order Merostomata. …

Carpenter, William Benjamin. 1843. General results of microscopic inquiries into the minute structure of the skeletons of Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 12: 377–90.

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  • … structure of the skeletons of Mollusca, Crustacea and Echinodermata. Annals and Magazine …

Chace, Fenner A. and Bruce, A. J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the AlbatrossPhilippine Expedition 1907–1910, part 6: superfamily Palaemonoidea. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 543. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

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  • … Bruce, A. J. 1993. The Caridean shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) of the Albatross Philippine …

Dana, James Dwight. 1854–5. On the geographical distribution of Crustacea. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d ser. 18 (1854): 314–26; 19 (1855): 6–15; 20 (1855): 168–78, 349–61.

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  • … 5. On the geographical distribution of Crustacea. American Journal of Science and Arts 2d …

Eights, James. 1852. Description of a new animal belonging to the Crustacea, discovered in the Antarctic Seas, by the author. Transactions of the Albany Institute 2 (1833–52): 331–4.

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  • … Description of a new animal belonging to the Crustacea, discovered in the Antarctic Seas, …

Goodsir, Harry D. S. 1844. Notice of observations on the development of the seminal fluid and organs of generation in the Crustacea. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 36: 183–6.

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  • … fluid and organs of generation in the Crustacea. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 36: …

Gould, Augustus Addison. 1841. Report on the invertebrata of Massachusetts: comprising the mollusca, crustacea, annelida and radiata. Cambridge, Mass.: Folsom, Wells, and Thurston.

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  • … of Massachusetts: comprising the mollusca, crustacea, annelida and radiata. Cambridge, …

Bate, Charles Spence. 1852. On some Crustacea dredged by Mr Barlee in the Shetlands. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 10: 356–7.

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  • … Bate, Charles Spence. 1852. On some Crustacea dredged by Mr Barlee in the Shetlands. …

Bate, Charles Spence. 1855. On the homologies of the carapace and on the structure and function of the antennæ in Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 2d ser. 16: 36–46.

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  • … structure and function of the antennæ in Crustacea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History …

Bate, Charles Spence. 1862. Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British Museum. London: Trustees of the British Museum.

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  • … 1862. Catalogue of the specimens of amphipodous Crustacea in the collection of the British …

Bate, Charles Spence and Westwood, John Obadiah. 1863–8. A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea. 2 vols. London: John van Voorst.

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  • … A history of the British sessile-eyed Crustacea. 2 vols. London: John van Voorst. https:// …
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Darwin’s study of the Cirripedia

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Darwin’s work on barnacles, conducted between 1846 and 1854, has long posed problems for historians. Coming between his transmutation notebooks and the Origin of species, it has frequently been interpreted as a digression from Darwin’s species work. Yet…

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  • … of one stage to that observed in the metamorphosis of Crustacea (DAR 31.2: 307). This observation …
  • … pointed out the similarity of barnacle larvae to those of Crustacea, most naturalists had followed …
  • … and anatomical comparison intra se and with other Crustacea, was needed.    Such a …
  • … to rank the Cirripedia as a separate sub-class of the Crustacea rather than subsuming the group …
  • … he ranked them as a separate order within this sub-class of Crustacea. Owen, on the other hand, …
  • … two of the characters commonly used to define the class of Crustacea were their power of locomotion …
  • … therefore ranked this group as a distinct class between the Crustacea and the Annelida (R. Owen 1855 …
  • … believed that the resemblances in the metamorphosis of Crustacea and the Cirripedia indicated their …
  • … to rank the Cirripedia as a separate sub-class of Crustacea.^8^    An understanding of the …
  • … differed from all other cirripedes (and, indeed, from all Crustacea) in having no rectum or anus. …
  • … frequently invoked this family of anomalous, parasitic Crustacea as an extreme example of retrograde …
  • … a lecture of 1857 that the Cirripedia were ranked among the Crustacea ‘by every naturalist of …

Darwin and barnacles

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In a letter to Henslow in March 1835 Darwin remarked that he had done ‘very little’ in zoology; the ‘only two novelties’ he added, almost as an afterthought, were a new mollusc and a ‘genus in the family Balanidæ’ – a barnacle – but it was an oddity. Who,…

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  • … him eight years.   Barnacles are a very odd group of Crustacea. The crustaceans most of us …
  • … Thompson was the first to argue that cirripedes were true Crustacea, based on his observation of a …
  • … Darwin located the Cirripedia within the larger class of Crustacea and he located Cryptophialus …

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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  • … forms of that neglected and hitherto confusing sub-class of Crustacea,  Living Cirripedia  (1851, …

Hermann Müller

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Hermann (Heinrich Ludwig Hermann) Müller, was born in Mühlberg near Erfurt in 1829. He was the younger brother of Fritz Müller (1822–97). Following the completion of his secondary education at Erfurt in 1848, he studied natural sciences at Halle and Berlin…

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  • … of Darwin’s theory. Just as Fritz had chosen to focus on Crustacea in his book, Für Darwin , so …

Fritz Müller

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Fritz Müller, a German who spent most of his life in political exile in Brazil, described Darwin as his second father, and Darwin's son, Francis, wrote that, although they never met 'the correspondence with Müller, which continued to the close of…

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  • … in 1861, Müller had discovered a new group of parasitic Crustacea, the Rhizocephala, while studying …

Alfred Russel Wallace’s essay on varieties

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The original manuscript about varieties that Wallace composed on the island of Gilolo and sent to Darwin from the neighbouring island of Ternate (Brooks 1984) has not been found. It was sent to Darwin as an enclosure in a letter (itself missing), and was…

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  • … daily swarming with a fresh supply of small mollusca and crustacea. Exactly the same laws will apply …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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  • … alone, these portions being highly variable & not as in Crustacea modelled over viscera ’. …
  • … of an insect or the segments of the vertebrate spine; in Crustacea the thoracic segments would be …

Sexual selection

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Although natural selection could explain the differences between species, Darwin realised that (other than in the reproductive organs themselves) it could not explain the often marked differences between the males and females of the same species.  So what…

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  • … in a whole range of organisms, from insects to crustacea to mammals, that seemed to fit with sexual …

Scientific Practice

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Specialism|Experiment|Microscopes|Collecting|Theory Letter writing is often seen as a part of scientific communication, rather than as integral to knowledge making. This section shows how correspondence could help to shape the practice of science, from…

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  • … in coloration between the sexes of some species of Crustacea, annelids, and spiders. He discusses …

Darwin’s reading notebooks

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In April 1838, Darwin began recording the titles of books he had read and the books he wished to read in Notebook C (Notebooks, pp. 319–28). In 1839, these lists were copied and continued in separate notebooks. The first of these reading notebooks (DAR 119…

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  • … 1834–8]: Reptiles [Duméril and Bibron 1834–54]: Crustacea Milne Edwards [Milne-Edwards 1834–40]: In …
  • … 1846] —— 30 M. Edwards. Geograph Distrib of Crustacea 3 d  Tom. of Suite de Buffon [Milne …
  • … History of E. Borders [G. Johnston 1853]. 20 Dana’s Crustacea [J. D. Dana 1852–3] 27. …
  • … DAR 71: 51–2.]  119: 22a ——. 1852–3.  Crustacea . Vols. 13 and 14 of United States …

John Murray

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Darwin's most famous book On the origin of species by means of natural selection (Origin) was published on 22 November 1859. The publisher was John Murray, who specialised in non-fiction, particularly politics, travel and science, and had published…

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  • … who had emigrated to Brazil, showed how his observations of crustacea supported Darwin’s theories; …

Darwin in letters, 1865: Delays and disappointments

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The year was marked by three deaths of personal significance to Darwin: Hugh Falconer, a friend and supporter; Robert FitzRoy, captain of the Beagle; and William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and father of Darwin’s friend…

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  • … a copy of Müller’s book,  Für Darwin , a study of the Crustacea with reference to CD’s theory of …

Books on the Beagle

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The Beagle was a sort of floating library.  Find out what Darwin and his shipmates read here.

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  • … C. Desaulses de Desmarest, Anselm-Gäetan. Plates for Crustacea, Zoea, etc. In  Dictionnaire …