From W. P. Marshall 29 December 1881
15, Augustus Road, | Birmingham.
29 Dec. 81.
Dear Sir,
We beg to thank you for your letter respecting Virgularia, and your kind offer to lend Kölliker’s “Alcyonarien” if we had not been able to see it. We have a copy of that work, but have not been able to find that Kölliker has published yet any further portion of his intended complete monograph.1
Respecting Virgularia he states that he had not been able to see or to hear of any specimen complete at the upper end; but I have just had the pleasure of finding in the Glasgow University Museum a specimen that has the upper end complete.2 It is 9 inches long and broken in the stalk just below the termination of the polypi-bearing portion.3
Dear Sir | Yours very truly | William P. Marshall
Charles Darwin Esqre. | LLD., FR.S.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Kölliker, Rudolf Albert von. 1870. Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien: I. Die Pennatuliden. Erste Hälfte. Frankfurt am Main: Christian Winter.
Kölliker, Rudolf Albert von. 1880. Report on the Pennatulida dredged by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Report on the scientific results of the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology 1 (pt. 2): 1–41. London: Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
Summary
Thanks for reference to A. von Kölliker’s monograph on Alcyonaria [Anatomisch-systematische Beschreibung der Alcyonarien (1870)].
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-13586
- From
- William Prime Marshall
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- Birmingham
- Source of text
- DAR 171: 51
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 13586,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-13586.xml