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Darwin Correspondence Project

To C. F. Claus   9 July 1876

Down, | Beckenham, Kent.

July 9. 1876

My dear Sir

I have received your most kind present. Your book looks remarkably handsome, & I never saw any thing more admirable than the plates at the end.1 I hope before long to read much of it, though the German language is slow work for me. I am particularly anxious to see what you say on the developement and genealogy of the Crustacea, and on the position of the Cirrepedia.2 Allow me to assure you that I feel very strongly the great honour of your dedication to me of so great a work.3

With the most cordial thanks & respect, I remain my dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

There is a copy of Claus’s Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems: ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre (Studies on the investigation of the genealogical foundation of the Crustacea: a contribution to the theory of descent; Claus 1876) in the Darwin Library–Down. See also Correspondence vol. 24, letter to C. F. Claus, 2 May 1876. The plates at the end show detailed drawings of crustaceans.
CD had published four volumes on Cirripedia; Fossil Cirripedia (1851) and (1854), and Living Cirripedia (1851) and (1854). In 1869, CD sent Claus some specimens of cirripedes, and also requested that Claus examine specific points of larval anatomy (see Correspondence vol. 17, letter to C. F. Claus, 28 January 1869).
The dedication read: ‘Herrn Charles Darwin in inniger Verehrung gewidmet’ (Dedicated with deepest respect to Charles Darwin).

Bibliography

Claus, Carl Friedrich. 1876b. Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems. Ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre. Vienna: Carl Gerold’s Sohn.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.

Fossil Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the fossil Balanidæ and Verrucidæ of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1854.

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.

Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854.

Summary

Thanks for copy of Claus’s book, Untersuchungen zur Erforschung der genealogischen Grundlage des Crustaceen-Systems: ein Beitrag zur Descendenzlehre (Studies on the investigation of the genealogical foundation of the Crustacea: a contribution to the theory of descent; Claus 1876).

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10559F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Carl Friedrich Claus
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Christie’s, London (dealers) (1 December 2016)
Physical description
LS 2pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10559F,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10559F.xml

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