To S. P. Woodward1 [April 1850 – January 1851]2
Down Farnborough Kent
Monday Evening
My dear Sir
I write a line to thank you & Mr Waterhouse much for the specimens which all arrived quite safely: they consist of
(1) Scalpellum trilineatum (of which I have hitherto seen only one specimen)
(2) S. arcuatum (of which you before sent me one, but different valve.—3
(3) P. rigidus
(4) P. lævis or unguis4
With thanks | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
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
Thanks JWF and G. R. Waterhouse for cirripede specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13807
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Samuel Pickworth Woodward
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13807,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13807.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4