To James Hilton 25 October [1851?]1
Oct 25th.
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your kind offer of the Cirripeda from the Northern Atlantic. But I have examined so many specimens from these seas, without finding anything new, that really I do not think it worth troubling you to send the specimen in question.—
The number of specimens attached to floating timber are but few, & I think that they are all perfectly well known.— I am,, however, not the less obliged to you for your very kind offer of assistance
I beg to remain | Your obliged & obed. servant | Charles Darwin
J. Hilton Esqre
Footnotes
Summary
Thanks for offer of Cirripedia specimens from the Northern Atlantic, but has seen so many that he does not need more.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1459F
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- James Hilton
- Source of text
- Stowe Collection, Stowe School Library (tipped into Living Cirripedia (1851); STO 5/45)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1459F,” accessed on 26 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1459F.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 24 (Supplement)
