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To Edward Bartlett   15 October [1871]

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Asks for information on feeding habits of Egyptian goose.

Author:  Charles Robert Darwin
Addressee:  Edward Bartlett
Date:  15 Oct [1871]
Classmark:  Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University (bMs 7.10.3(3))
Letter no:  DCP-LETT-8010
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Barnacles

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Sources|Discussion Questions|Experiment Darwin and barnacles Darwin’s interest in Cirripedia, a class of marine arthropods, was first piqued by the discovery of an odd burrowing barnacle, which he later named “Mr. Arthrobalanus," while he was…

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  • … Letter Packet: Darwin's Barnacles Letter 1015 —Darwin to J. D. Hooker, [18 Oct …

Living and fossil cirripedia

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Darwin published four volumes on barnacles, the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia, between 1851 and 1854, two on living species and two on fossil species. Written for a specialist audience, they are among the most challenging and least read of Darwin’s works…

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  • … Darwin published four volumes on the crustacean sub-class Cirripedia between 1851 and 1854, two on …
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