Letter 1357
Darwin, C. R. to Owen, Richard
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Asks to borrow a cirripede specimen from collection of Frederick Dixon.
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Down Farnborough Kent
Friday
My dear Owen
This requires no answer, without it be a favourable one: it is to say that I am
particularly anxious to see a valve of a Cirripede in late M
I hope that you are not killing yourself at your usual rate with hard work—
Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
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Dated from the relationship to the letter to Richard Owen, 28 April [1850] (see n. 2, below). - +
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Tab. XXVIII, fig. 9, refers to F. Dixon 1850. The plate is reproduced in Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 38. The specimen was evidently in the possession of Frederick Dixon's widow, to whom Owen directed CD (see letter to Richard Owen, 28 April [1850]). - +
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Tab. XIV, figs. 3 and 4, are in Sowerby and Sowerby 1812–46, vol. 7.