To Richard Owen 10 September [1850]
Down Farnborough Kent
Sept 10th
My dear Sir
You are aware that I have been employed for a considerable time on a Monograph on the Cirripedia.— There is a species in the Museum of the College, which I am particularly anxious to describe namely the Balanus glacialis: to do this it is indispensable to disarticulate one small specimen;— Could you oblige me by laying this request before the governing Body?
I would of course return the valves of the one specimen disarticulated, if I gain permission.
Pray believe me | Yours sincerely | C. Darwin To | Professor Owen | &c &c &c
Summary
Asks to borrow specimen of Balanus glacialis from the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. It will be necessary to disarticulate it, but CD will return the valves to the Museum.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1356
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Richard Owen
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (General Special Collections Owen correspondence 9/199)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1356,” accessed on 18 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1356.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4