To Albany Hancock 25 February [1853]
Down Farnborough, Kent,
Feb. 25th.
My dear Sir,
Whenever you have a few minutes leisure I should be very much obliged for answers to two questions, if you can answer them. (1) At what depth is Alcippe found?1 (2) At about what date was the shell taken which you sent me in spirits with all the specimens of Alcippe. I want to know, because most of the males were well filled with spermatozoa.2 I fear I wrote to you at too great length in my former letter.3
Pray believe me, | Yours very truly obliged, | Charles Darwin.
The dried specimens you sent me by post lately, swarmed with males, but all too dry and shrivelled to do much good with.
Footnotes
Bibliography
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
Asks at what depth Alcippe is found and on what date the shell with Alcippe specimens that AH sent was taken.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1504
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Albany Hancock
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- J. Hancock 1886, p. 275
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1504,” accessed on 26 September 2022, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1504.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5
