To J. A. H. de Bosquet 7 June [1853]
Down Farnborough Kent
June 7th.
Dear Sir
In answer to your letter (of April 7th.) containing a drawing of the valves of a Verruca, I ventured to ask you to be so good as to inform me by what name you intended calling it. I shd. also be glad to know whether the outline of the plate, to which the adductor muscle is attached in the fixed scutum, has the almost angular outline as represented by you, or whether it has been broken:1 I shd. be very glad to know, also, whether the basal point of the free or movable tergum is as much rounded, naturally & without attrition, as represented by you.2
I presume your volume will now be soon published.3
I beg to remain, with much respect, & hoping for an answer,— | Dear Sir | Your’s faithfully | Charles Darwin
Footnotes
Bibliography
Bosquet, Joseph Augustin Hubert de. 1854. Monographie des Crustaces fossiles du terrain Crétacé du Duché de Limbourg. Haarlem.
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
Discusses JAHdeB’s drawing of a Verruca.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1517
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Joseph Augustin Hubert de Bosquet
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.102)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1517,” accessed on 20 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1517.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5