To G. R. Waterhouse 29 August [1854]
Down Farnborough Kent
Aug 29th
My dear Waterhouse
You let me have some fossil Balani from the mouth of the Indus, about which I cd. make out very little; & they are now returned.— I, also, send all the fossil Cirripedes, which I have been able anyhow to get for the Museum. Though few I hope they will be worth preserving. A few are very rare. A considerable lot was sent me named by M. Bosquet of Maestricht.1 Mr. Woodward knows so much about fossil Cirripedes, that I hope he will see them gummed on.2
My dear Waterhouse | very sincerely yours | C. Darwin List Scalpellum maximum ————— magnum ————— fossula ————— pulchellum Bosquet ————— radiatum do. ————— tuberculatum Pollicipes striatus ———— Darwinianus Bosq ———— glaber do ———— semilatus ———— reflexus Bal. inclusus var. —— concavus. —— bisulcatus —— unguiformis —— porcatus Bal. corrugatus —— varians (Patagonia) —— lævis (var.) Verruca prisca Bosquet
P.S. I have not sent hardly any English fossil Balani, as Mr S. Wood gives his whole collection.3
Footnotes
Bibliography
Fossil Cirripedia (1851): A monograph on the fossil Lepadidæ, or, pedunculated cirripedes of Great Britain. By Charles Darwin. London: Palaeontographical Society. 1851.
Withers, Thomas Henry. 1928–53. Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the department of geology. 3 vols. London: British Museum (Natural History).
Woodward, Samuel Pickworth. 1851–6. A manual of the Mollusca; or, a rudimentary treatise of recent and fossil shells. 3 pts. London. [Vols. 6,8,9]
Summary
Sends fossil cirripedes for the museum’s collection.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1583
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- George Robert Waterhouse
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Archives DF PAL/100/7/)
- Physical description
- ALS 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1583,” accessed on 23 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1583.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5