From J. D. Dana [before 29 December 1850]1
[The larval antennae in Lepas] correspond with the inferior antennæ, the superior2 being wanting, as in most Daphnidæ.3… I know of no case in which the inferior are obsolete when the superior are developed; but the reverse is often true.4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Baird, William. 1850. The natural history of the British Entomostraca. London.
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
Hutchinson, Horace Gordon. 1914. Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London: Macmillan.
Living Cirripedia (1851): A monograph of the sub-class Cirripedia, with figures of all the species. The Lepadidæ; or, pedunculated cirripedes. By Charles Darwin. London: Ray Society. 1851.
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
Gives his opinion that the larval antennae in Lepas correspond with the inferior antennae, the superior not present, as in most Daphnidae. [See 1381.]
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1380A
- From
- James Dwight Dana
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Source of text
- Living Cirripedia (1851): 15 n.
- Physical description
- inc
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1380A,” accessed on 27 July 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1380A.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 4