To Japetus Steenstrup 15 June [1850]
Down Farnborough Kent
June 15th.
My dear Sir
I sincerely beg your pardon for troubling you so soon, but I write to say that my Plates are in the Engraver’s hands, & if you could without very much trouble send me soon the additional specimens of your Anatifera cretæ or Oxynaspis ? or Scalpellum ?1 it wd be a great obligation.
Dear Sir | Yours truly obliged | C. Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.
Summary
Asks him to send additional cirripede specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1342
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Johannes Japetus Smith (Japetus) Steenstrup
- Sent from
- Malvern Down letterhead
- Source of text
- Det Kongelige Bibliotek, Copenhagen (NKS 3460 4to)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1342,” accessed on 28 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1342.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4