Letter 2037
Darwin, C. R. to Huxley, T. H.
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Congratulations [on Mrs H's delivery].
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Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
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Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 4
My dear Huxley
I congratulate you heartily on M
The Balanus is positively B. balanoides, & you may positively state that the surface to which it adhered was not beneath level of lowest tide
I will bring specimen when next I come to London.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
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The year is given by CD's reference to the birth of Noel Huxley (see n. 2, below). - +
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Noel Huxley was born 31 December 1856 (L. Huxley ed. 1900, 1: 150–1). - +
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CD had described the tidal locations in which individuals of Balanus balanoides were found in Living Cirripedia (1854): 272.