To S. P. Woodward1 3 March [1851]
Down. Farnborough Kent
March 3d.
My dear Sir
I fear that your patience will have been exhausted, but at last I am happy to say that I have finished & printed my monograph on the fossil pedunculated Cirripedes & am enabled to return you your specimens. I thank you very sincerely for their loan; they have been most useful to me.— Be careful in unpacking the boxes, that you do not lose the valves, now loose, in the cotton. All, except a few not characteristic valves, are named. The Aptychus (?)2 reached me in the broken condition in which it is now returned, I am sorry to say. No other specimens were at all injured.—
With my repeated thanks. Believe me | My dear Sir | Yours very 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–.
Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.
Orbigny, Alcide d’. 1849–52. Cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques. 3 vols. Paris: Victor Masson.
Summary
Cirripede fossil specimens returned.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1392
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Samuel Pickworth Woodward
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1392,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1392.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5