To N. T. Wetherell 8 [August 1850]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Thursday 8th
Dear Sir
I fear that you will think me a sad trespasser on your kindness & forbearance, when I tell you that I have not actually completed my description of Loricula;2 but I shall do it directly & write now to obtain your permission to take (myself) your specimen to Mr. James De C. Sowerby3 to ⟨be⟩ drawn for publication by the Palæontographical Society.— I have received Mr Flowers4 specimens, & some from Denmark but none are related to the Loricula, which is as perplexing as ever to me.—
Immediately that Mr Sowerby has with your permission figured the Loricula (& I shall take it up in a fortnight) it shall be returned to you.—
Is there any safe place where I could leave it in London for you, or shall I return it by a messenger?—
I believe I did once before ask you, whether you have any other fossil Cirripedia.—
To save you the trouble of answering, I will assume, without I hear to the contrary that Mr Sowerby may figure it.—
With my best thanks | I remain dear Sir | Your’s faithfully | C. Darwin
I assure you that it has not been idleness which has delayed me, but numbers of specimens of other fossil
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.
Summary
Has not completed description of NTW’s Loricula. Wants permission to have it figured by James de Carle Sowerby. Does NTW have other fossil cirripedes?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1267
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Kotte Autographs (dealers) (April 2019)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1267,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1267.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4