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To H. N. Moseley   7 February 1877

Down, | Beckenham, Kent. | Railway Station | Orpington. S.E.R.

Feb 7. 1877

My dear Mr Moseley

I shall like very much to see the photographs as you so kindly propose. Please ask Hooker to have the box addressed Orpington Station S.E.R as that is much the safest route.1 I was very glad to read your paper on the N. Zealand Peripatus & likewise yr discussion on the colours of deep sea animals.2 When I read Mr Bullar’s paper on the self-fertilising hermaphrodites I suspected some error but could not conceive what it was.3

With many thanks | Yours sincerely | Charles Darwin

Footnotes

1
No letter from Moseley about the photographs has been found and the photographs have not been identified, but see also Correspondence vol. 24, letter from H. N. Moseley, 3 November 1876 and n. 5. Joseph Dalton Hooker.
2
Moseley published a paper on Peripatus novae-zealandiae (a synonym of Peripatoides novaezealandiae, a velvet worm) in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Moseley 1877a); see also Correspondence vol. 24, letter from H. N. Moseley, [after 17 November 1876]. There is a copy of Moseley 1877a in the Darwin Pamphlet Collection–CUL. Moseley published on the colours of deep-sea animals in the Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science (Moseley 1877b).
3
John Follet Bullar’s article was ‘The generative organs of the parasitic isopoda’ (Bullar 1876). Moseley discussed Bullar’s conclusion that the isopods were self-impregnating in Moseley 1877a, pp. 89–90; he suggested that Bullar had mis-identified spermatophores as testes.

Bibliography

Bullar, John Follet. 1876. The generative organs of the parasitic Isopoda. Journal of Anatomy and Physiology 11: 118–23.

Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.

Moseley, Henry Nottidge. 1877a. Remarks on observations by Captain Hutton, director of the Otago Museum, on Peripatus novæ-zealandiæ, with notes on the structure of the species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 4th ser. 19: 85–91.

Moseley, Henry Nottidge. 1877b. On the colouring matters of various animals, and especially of deep-sea forms dredged by H.M.S. Challenger. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science n.s. 17: 1–23.

Summary

Would like to see the photographs.

Was glad to read HNM’s paper on the New Zealand Peripatus.

Letter details

Letter no.
DCP-LETT-10834F
From
Charles Robert Darwin
To
Henry Nottidge Moseley
Sent from
Down
Source of text
Christie’s, London (dealers) (online 31 October – 8 November 2018, lot 9)
Physical description
2pp LS

Please cite as

Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 10834F,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-10834F.xml

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