To J. E. Gray 28 March [1854]
Down Farnborough Kent
March 28th.—
Dear Gray
As you were so kind as to say that you would complete for me, as far as possible, the Zoolog.y of the Erebus & Terror,1 I send a list of what I have. I shd. be very glad to have the missing Parts.
As the numbering of the Parts is not consecutive I thought I shd. make my deficiencies plainest by giving the pages of the text of that which I have.— Perhaps you will be so good as to have any Parts, (together with Busk,2 whenever you can screw a copy out of the Trustees) put together for me, & I will call for them in about 3 weeks.— Pray forgive this trouble & believe me, Dear Gray | Yours very sincerely | C. Darwin
Has the arrangement of the Cirripedes made any progress? I hope that you will make my work be of such value, as it may possess, by keeping my names, though it may be only temporarily.3 I shd. so much like to see all in a Cabinet. I am going soon to arrange Mr. Cuming’s for him, or rather to superintend their arrangement.—4
Footnotes
Bibliography
Busk, George. 1852–4. Catalogue of marine Polyzoa in the collection of the British Museum. 2 vols. London: printed by order of the Trustees.
Harding, J. P. 1962. Darwin’s type specimens of varieties of Balanus amphitrite. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) (Zoology) 9: 271–96.
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.
Withers, Thomas Henry. 1928–53. Catalogue of fossil Cirripedia in the department of geology. 3 vols. London: British Museum (Natural History).
Summary
Asks for parts of The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Erebus and Terror [1844–75].
Asks about the arrangement of cirripedes at the Museum; hopes JEG will keep CD’s names.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-1564
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- John Edward Gray
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Natural History Museum, Library and Archives (Zoology letters 2: 56)
- Physical description
- ALS 3pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 1564,” accessed on 24 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-1564.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 5