Letter 1286
Darwin, C. R. to White, Adam
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Requests AW to ask Arthur Adams, who is going on a polar expedition to Lancaster Sound, to collect cirripedes.
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Asks location of "Cape Rivers".
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My dear Sir
As you tell me that M
Will you also ask him, where “Cape Rivers” Voyage of Samarang is.—
Yours in great Haste. | Very sincerely | C. Darwin
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Dated on the basis of n. 2, below. - +
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H.M.S. Lady Franklin and H.M.S. Sophia set out to search for the lost Franklin expedition in April 1850. Arthur Adams was not on board, but CD did obtain at least one specimen from the voyage. A Balanus porcatus from Lancaster Sound is listed in Living Cirripedia (1854): 257 as owned by ‘Mr. Sutherland’, presumably Peter Cormack Sutherland, surgeon to the expedition and author of an account of it (Sutherland 1852). - +
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Cape Rivers is located on the northern part of Celebes. Arthur Adams, assistant surgeon on board H.M.S. Samarang during the survey of the Malay Archipelago, 1843–6, provided notes on the natural history of the islands in Belcher 1848 and edited the Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage.