To George Crawford Hyndman 16 April [1852]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Ap. 16th—
Dear Sir
I am very much obliged to you for your kindness in sending me the larvæ of the Balanus.2 I have seen them before but they are very fine specimens, & I daresay will hereafter come in very useful, & I will carefully preserve them.
I beg to remain | Your’s faithfully & obliged | C. Darwin G. Hyndman Esq
Footnotes
Bibliography
Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854.
Summary
Thanks GCH for Balanus specimens.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1479
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Crawford Hyndman
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.101)
- Physical description
- ALS 1p
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1479,” accessed on 29 March 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1479.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5