To John Edward Gray [18 December 1847]1
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Saturday Night
My dear Gray
If you do not approve of the enclosed,2 pray return it me for correction. I have asked for the collection in groups; if I had the pedunculated & sessile separate it would be all I could wish; & I could with some difficulty divide the sessile into two sub-groups.— But if my request is granted all the details, no doubt will be at your command.—
I have said nothing about time, fearing that the Trustees might hamper me; but on that head you will act, I believe, as far as you can for my advantage.—
I thank you most sincerely for your kindness & great liberality in this whole affair3
Yours very sincerely | C Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851.
Summary
Discusses loan of cirripede specimens from the British Museum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1146
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Edward Gray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.71)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1146,” accessed on 1 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1146.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4