To ? 17 June 1881
Glenrhydding House | Patterdale, Penrith
June 17th. 1881.
Dear Sir
I am much obliged to you for your kindness in having sent me the enclosed paper.1 The case is a very curious one & an awful look-out for palæontologists.— Is it not believed that there are many analogous cases with the Pulmoniferæ?2 One expression astonishes me, (but I suppose this is owing to my ignorance) when he speaks of it as not being established that one mollusc can be parasitic within the shell of another.—3
Dear Sir | Yours faithfully & obliged | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Forbes, Edward and Hanley, Sylvanus. 1853. A history of British Mollusca and their shells. 4 vols. London: John Van Voorst.
Summary
Thanks correspondent for sending paper on molluscs.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13208
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Unidentified
- Sent from
- Patterdale
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.591)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
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