From V. O. Kovalevsky 15 September 1870
London
15 Sept. 1870.
Dear Sir!
I have just received a letter from my brother1 in which he says that he set himself to verify Your old discovery about the supplementary males, but unhappily in whole Naples there is not a single copy of Your monography of the Cirripedia, so I make use of Your kind proposition to lend me for a short time Your own copy which I shall immediately forward to Naples, as soon as my brother has done with the book he schall send it back to You.2
At the time when he send me the letter, he was able to see only some of the Scalpellum preserved in Spirit in the museum, but has a good hope of getting a plenty supply of living ones3
Your very truly | W. Kowalevsky
31 Bloomsb. Str. | Bedf. Square.
Footnotes
Bibliography
Correspondence: The correspondence of Charles Darwin. Edited by Frederick Burkhardt et al. 29 vols to date. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1985–.
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.
Newman, William A. 1993. Darwin and cirripedology. History of Carcinology. Crustacean Issues 8: 349–434.
Summary
Requests a copy of [Living] Cirripedia to send to his brother, Alexander, who is working in Naples and wishes to verify CD’s discovery of complementary males.
Letter details
- Letter no.
- DCP-LETT-7320
- From
- Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
- To
- Charles Robert Darwin
- Sent from
- London, Bloomsbury St, 31
- Source of text
- DAR 169: 81
- Physical description
- ALS 2pp
Please cite as
Darwin Correspondence Project, “Letter no. 7320,” accessed on 26 March 2023, https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-7320.xml
Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 18
