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Summary
CD appreciates JdeCS’s care. Sends specimens, noting points to be observed. He adds that the figures which have been most troublesome are those of which drawings were made [for Fossil Cirripedia (Lepadidae)].
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Feb. 13th
My dear Sir
Many thanks for all the care you wish to take. I enclose two boards with specimens— you will see the central ridge is very little larger than the other longitudinal striæ, & that there are no marginal lateral main ridges as in some other species.— I send also the Scutum.— Attend to the Section of the Carina.—f1
It is unfortunate, but I observe that the figures which have given most trouble are those of which drawings were made!
With thanks | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin
P.S. When convenient you can let me know what I am indebted to you—
P.S. All the specimens can perhaps be put together in the present Box & sent to the Geological Society, informing me of them as soon as sent there.—
Footnotes
- f1
- The references are to parts of Scalpellum arcuatum (Fossil Cirripedia (1851): Tab. I, fig. 7) to Sowerby’s engravings of which CD had requested alterations (see letter to J. de C. Sowerby, 10 February [1851]).