To A. A. Gould 21 July 1855
Down Farnborough Kent
July 21. /55
My dear Sir
In a note received a few days since from Sir C. Lyell he tells me that you have seen my last volume on Cirripedia,1 & think well of it. (which I assure you pleases me very much); but this leads me to ask whether I am mistaken in supposing that you are still one of the subscribers to the Ray Soc.y.—2 I have two copies left, & I well know that no one has a better right than yourself, to a copy,—a very small & poor return for all your kindness.—
I have retained these two copies in case I shd. hear of anyone working on Cirripedes: but if you are no longer a member of the Ray Soc.y. & would be so kind as to take the trouble to inform me, it would give me the greatest pleasure to send you a copy. If I do not hear I shall understand that you are still a member, & will no doubt in due time receive your copy. The volume was not distributed for some time after I sent out my presentation copies—
I hope that you will forgive my troubling you with this note; but I shd. dislike exceedingly to be thought ungrateful by you.—
Pray believe me | My dear Sir | With much respect | Yours very faithfully | Charles Darwin
Bibliography
Living Cirripedia (1854): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Balanidæ (or sessile cirripedes); the Verrucidæ, etc. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1854.
Summary
If AAG is no longer member of the Ray Society, CD would like to send copy of Living Cirripedia, vol. 2.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1724
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Augustus Addison Gould
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Houghton Library, Harvard University (Augustus A. Gould papers, 1831–66 MS Am 1210: 230)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1724,” accessed on 10 May 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1724.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5