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To G. R. Waterhouse   29 August [1854]

Down Farnborough Kent

Aug 29th

My dear Waterhouse

You let me have some fossil Balani from the mouth of the Indus, about which I cd. make out very little; & they are now returned.— I, also, send all the fossil Cirripedes, which I have been able anyhow to get for the Museum. Though few I hope they will be worth preserving. A few are very rare. A considerable lot was sent me named by M. Bosquet of Maestricht.1 Mr. Woodward knows so much about fossil Cirripedes, that I hope he will see them gummed on.2

My dear Waterhouse | very sincerely yours | C. Darwin List Scalpellum maximum ————— magnum ————— fossula ————— pulchellum Bosquet ————— radiatum do. ————— tuberculatum Pollicipes striatus ———— Darwinianus Bosq ———— glaber do ———— semilatus ———— reflexus Bal. inclusus var. —— concavus. —— bisulcatus —— unguiformis —— porcatus Bal. corrugatus —— varians (Patagonia) —— lævis (var.) Verruca prisca Bosquet

P.S. I have not sent hardly any English fossil Balani, as Mr S. Wood gives his whole collection.3

Footnotes

Samuel Pickworth Woodward, assistant in the department of geology and mineralogy at the British Museum and author of a work on recent and fossil shells (Woodward 1851–6).
Searles Valentine Wood had provided specimens which CD described in Fossil Cirripedia (1851) and (1854). Wood’s collection is mentioned in Withers 1928–53, 3: 5.

Bibliography

Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.

Withers, Thomas Henry. 1928–53. Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the department of geology. 3 vols. London: British Museum (Natural History).

Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells. 3 pts. London. [Vols. 6,8,9]

Summary

Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-1583
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
George Robert Waterhouse
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
Physical description
ALS 4pp

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1583,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1583.xml

Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5

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