To Hugh Cuming [October? 1849]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Saturday Evening
My dear Sir
I have now described & named all your specimens of Pedunculata, & will bring them back to you, when I come up for first meeting of Geolog. Society in early November.—2
I have got to go over most of the genera again, to compare specimens lately received, & amongst these I have from Paris, a Lithotrya from the Friendly Islands, which I suspect is the same with your single specimen from the Philippines;3 will you be so kind as to lend me your specimen again for comparison, & I will return it with the others.— If you have picked up lately any fresh Pedunculate Cirripedes, it would be a great saving of time to me, if you would send them me, so that I might compare them now that I have got to go over most of the genera again—
I will send the Carrier on Thursday morning next to your house, for the chance of your being so kind as to lend me the Lithotrya & anything new amongst the Pedunculata.—
As soon as I have written out my generic descriptions of the Pedunculata, I shall set to work with the sessile cirripedes4 & I confess I quite dread the genus Balanus.—
Your’s most sincerely | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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 cirripede specimens borrowed from HC.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1258
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Hugh Cuming
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.82)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1258,” accessed on 28 September 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1258.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4