Darwin, C. R. to Harris, William
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Has finished the last proof of his monograph [Fossil Lepadidae] and returns WH's specimens. Has named two new species from the collection.
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Down. Farnborough Kent
March 4
My dear Sir
At last I have finished the last proof of my little monograph, & am enabled to
return you your specimens with very many thanks. I hope that they will reach you quite
safely. I have named two new species from your collection; I
have no doubt it contains several other new forms, but all your specimens are so young
that I dare not attach names to them. I have enclosed a
catalogue of such specimens, as I could venture even approximately to name.—
One of the species described from your specimens viz. S. tuberculatum, is an
unusually well-defined & interesting species.— You have but few
specimens of it; otherwise I sh
Once again accept my best thanks & believe me, dear Sir | Yours very faithfully | C. Darwin
The second species, described from your collection, P. semilatus is a unique specimen.—
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- f1 1393.f1
Harris had lent CD several fossil cirripedes (see Correspondence vol. 4, letter to William Harris, 6 August [1850]). - +
- f2 1393.f2
Scalpellum tuberculatum and Pollicipes semilatus (Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 43, 72). - +
- f3 1393.f3
Even the valves from the two species identified and named by CD were minute: he recorded that in Harris's specimens of S. tuberculatum the carina measured only 0.2 inches and the terga less than 0.15 inches (Fossil Cirripedia (1851): 43).