To Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell 8 [August 1850]1
Down Farnborough Kent
Thursday 8th
Dear Sir
I fear that you will think me a sad trespasser on your kindness & forbearance, when I tell you that I have not actually completed my description of Loricula;2 but I shall do it directly & write now to obtain your permission to take (myself) your specimen to Mr. James De C. Sowerby3 to 〈be〉 drawn for publication by the Palæontographical Society.— I have received Mr Flowers4 specimens, & some from Denmark but none are related to the Loricula, which is as perplexing as ever to me.—
Immediately that Mr Sowerby has with your permission figured the Loricula (& I shall take it up in a fortnight) it shall be returned to you.—
Is there any safe place where I could leave it in London for you, or shall I return it by a messenger?—
I believe I did once before ask you, whether you have any other fossil Cirripedia.—
To save you the trouble of answering, I will assume, without I hear to the contrary that Mr Sowerby may figure it.—
With my best thanks | I remain dear Sir | Your’s faithfully | C. Darwin
I assure you that it has not been idleness which has delayed me, but numbers of specimens of other fossil
Footnotes
Summary
Has not completed description of NTW’s Loricula. Wants permission to have it figured by James de Carle Sowerby. Does NTW have other fossil cirripedes?
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1267
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Nathaniel Thomas Wetherell
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Edward Ford (private collection)
- Physical description
- 4pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1267,” accessed on 23 April 2018, http://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/DCP-LETT-1267
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4