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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

The recipient is identified from an earlier letter that indicates that CD corresponded with Woodward about Aptychus. See Correspondence vol. 4, letter to S. P. Woodward, 21 March [1850].
For CD’s discussion of Aptychus and his reasons for not including the genus among the pedunculated cirripedes, as had Alcide Charles Victor Dessalines d’Orbigny in Orbigny 1849–52, 1: 254, see Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 3–5.

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

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