To Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss 21 December [1851]
Down Bromley Kent
Dec. 21.
Sir
I hope that you will forgive me addressing you. I am preparing a monograph on the Cirripedia, & am extremely anxious to make it as perfect as possible. Will you confer on a fellow naturalist & traveller, the great favour of the loan of a specimen of your Conia rosea, which shall be faithfully returned to you.1 A single valve of the shell, & two valves on either side of the operculum, would be sufficient, if you do not like to trust a perfect specimen in a letter. Will you be so kind as to tell me, whether you collected C. rosea yourself, or whether it was given to you; I ask, because I have a closely allied form from Australia, which surprises me a good deal.—2
Trusting that you will forgive me troubling, & that your kindness will prompt you to oblige me, though a stranger, if it lies in your power,
I beg to remain, | Sir | Your obliged & faithful servant | Charles Darwin To | Professor Krauss | &c &c &c
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Krauss, Ferdinand. 1848. Die südafrikanischen Mollusken. Stuttgart.
Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854.
Summary
Asks to borrow FK’s specimen of Conia rosea. Would like to know if FK collected it himself [in S. Africa] or was given it, because CD has a closely allied species from Australia, which surprises him. [See Living Cirripedia 2: 335.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1465
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Christian Ferdinand Friedrich von Krauss
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Wellcome Collection
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1465,” accessed on 16 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1465.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5