To T. H. Huxley 4 January [1857]1
Down Bromley Kent
Jan. 4th
My dear Huxley
I congratulate you heartily on Mrs. Huxley’s troubles being over.—2 It is a horrid affair at the best of times; & I fear a repitition will not make you feel younger.—
The Balanus is positively B. balanoides, & you may positively state that the surface to which it adhered was not beneath level of lowest tide3
I will bring specimen when next I come to London.—
Ever yours | C. Darwin
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
Congratulations [on Mrs H’s delivery].
Balanus balanoides positively identified by CD.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-2037
- From
- Charles Robert Darwin
- To
- Thomas Henry Huxley
- Sent from
- Down
- Source of text
- Imperial College of Science, Technology, and Medicine Archives (Huxley 5: 48)
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 2037,” accessed on 19 April 2024, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-2037.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 6
